Women, when undressed in this indelicate way, are said to be in _full dress_. I think this is a sly sarcasm of the men. The men, however, dress in a manner not at all better. When in full dress, they put on a ridiculous close garment, slit up behind, and very scant, with two tails, which pretend to cover the hinder parts. The _trowsers_ (an "unmentionable" article for the legs), no more than the _under_ garment worn by us, is the only covering for the legs and lower part of the body! Imagine the indelicacy! In this style of _full dress_, the women and men of the High-Caste Barbarians meet and mingle together everywhere, and at all feasts, revelries, and dances. In the shows within-doors the same mode prevails. At the public spectacles, in full view of thousands, ladies sit exposed to the gaze of men, who often level at them the magnifying glasses taken for the purpose! Critically examining the exhibition before them from a distance of twenty feet [tu-fai]. The dress of women on horseback is as follows:--The head is covered with a man's head-gear, round, hard, high, black in colour, with a narrow rim. The bust and body are just as tightly fitted as possible, the hips and figure exposed in exact shape (how much _made up_ no one can more than conjecture), and the legs covered by the dress falling over them long and full. The woman sits on a side-saddle, one leg well up over a horn of the saddle near the front top, and the other supported with the foot in a steel rest. She is lifted by a male servant, relative, or friend, into her perch. And when she, with the little whip in hand, takes up the long strips of leather by which she guides the horse, and starts off, there is a show the most curious! Up and down, with every motion of the horse, she _bobs_ [Ko-bys], exposing, to any one looking after her, the most precise model of herself! but in an attitude and costume so remarkable, that I never saw even the accustomed Barbarians disregard an opportunity to see _this show_, however indifferent they may usually be. Nor do I think that the Barbarian women esteem any exhibition of themselves superior to this. In the country you will see several apparitions of this kind, urging their flying horses after men and dogs, all chasing _pell-mell_ some poor hare, which, running for cover, is pursued by a crowd of men and women on horseback, with dogs, yelping, barking, men blowing horns and shouting; the women on the horses leaping over fences, ditches, and urging their horses as wildly, boldly as the men--and sometimes in all respects as skilfully and well! This Sport is considered by the Barbarians to be very manly--nor do they consider a broken back, or even neck, as any objection to it!