Every _puckaully_ carries also a small bag, that he may serve as an ordinary ‘_hand-bheesty_’, when required. This is made of the skin of a goat, taken off in a particular manner. Being put into a solution of lime, the hair soon quits; when the inside fleshings are carefully scraped off. A tan is then made of the bark of _baubool_, (mimosa), _khut_, (catechu,) and alum. _Bheesties_ are, with few exceptions, Mussulmans; it being contrary to the Hindu code to touch either the carcases, or the skins, of animals killed in any way. Hence, a Hindu of this profession is extremely rare, and will seldom be discovered; owing to the necessity for change of name, so as to pass for a Mussulman. Hindus will, nevertheless, drink of the water supplied from the _mussock_, (or _bheesty-bag_); though they are extremely partial to such as they can draw themselves, by means of a line and metal pot, with which most travellers are provided. Some few are, to be sure, extravagantly scrupulous, and will undergo excessive thirst, rather than partake of the _bheesty’s_ supply. Dust, heat, and fatigue, however, rarely fail, after a while, to overcome such ill-timed fastidiousness. The _puckaullies_, or, as they are usually called, the _bullock-bheesties_, replenish their bags by driving their cattle into some _tank_, or pond, up to their knees, or even deeper, then baling in the water, by means of a small leather bucket, holding about two quarts, or more. The _hand-bheesty_ usually sinks his bag under water, when it soon fills. When drawing water from the wells, the leather bucket, called a _dole_, is used by both the _puckaully_ and the _hand-bheesty_.