All the houses in India are tarrased, not only on the basements, but on every floor; therefore, previous to sweeping, the _bheesty_ sprinkles the tarras slightly; thereby preventing the dust from rising when the sweeper performs his part. He likewise waters the precincts of the house, several times daily, but especially towards sun-set, when gentlemen usually take their tea in the open air. If going any distance, perhaps two or three miles, in their palanquins, during the prevalence of the hot winds, it is common for persons of respectability to be accompanied by their _bheesties_, who carry a small quantity of water in their _mussocks_; therewith sprinkling the _tatties_ applied to the sides of the vehicle; the interior, which but for this would be insufferably hot, is thereby rendered fresh and cool. Those who do not take _bheesties_ with them, have their _gutta-topes_, (or palanquin covers,) which are ordinarily made of the _karwah_ before described, well soaked in water before they set out: this, though not so effectual as the foregoing mode, is no bad substitute. Water, when dashed out from the end of a _mussock_, or _bheesty-bag_, would be apt to penetrate into the interior of a palanquin; and as its expenditure, while proceeding any distance, should be economically managed, a very simple device is in use, which effectually answers every purpose; namely, the introduction of a small rose-head, similar to those affixed to the spouts of garden watering-pots, which being firmly secured within the neck of the _mussock_, by means of the leather throng always attached to that part, divides the water more minutely, and checks its too abundant supply; at the same time that it causes the distribution to be more general and equal. _Tatties_ are made of the roots of that long grass of which most of the jungles in India consist, and which correspond exactly with the Guinea grass, once so ridiculously sent to the East as a great acquisition; the fibres are of a rusty brown color, devious in their direction, and may be from ten to twenty inches in length: we see among us cloaths brushes, and carpet brooms, made of it. The Hindostanee name is _kuss-kuss_, and the general price may be about four rupees per maund, (of 82 lb).