----- Footnote 37: _Durbar_, properly means Court, or Residency. Footnote 38: Different modes of dressing meat, &c. ----- ‘After prayers, if the master be a young man, he generally retires to the _zenanah_, where, in company with his wife, and some of his female relations, he enjoys his _hookah_, and some trifling refreshment of sweetmeat, &c. till about ten or eleven o’clock, when the rest of the females retire to their own apartments. The husband and wife always sleep on separate bed-steads, placed adjoining to each other. From motives of refinement and delicacy, the wife, without an adequate motive, abstains most rigidly from sleeping on the bed appropriated for the husband. ‘Formerly, a good deal of sociability reigned among them, and they frequently dined at each other’s houses; but at present, the practice is in disuse; owing to frequent acts of treachery having been committed at such meetings: however, sometimes, on sacred days, they still meet; but, if of the higher orders, never without much caution and suspicion. ‘When an assembly is convened to communicate an event of grief, the invited always sends the provisions to the habitation of the inviter; who is supposed to be too much afflicted to attend to such circumstances. ‘The hour of audience at the _Durbar_, is generally soon after sun-rising; when all those in the employment of the great personage, attend to make their obeisance. A few are admitted to the presence; the rest wait the great man’s coming out: but, should he not, they must retire without enjoying the sun-shine of his countenance. The modes of salutation, and the different etiquettes, have been so frequently detailed, that here it becomes unnecessary. Indeed, it is not their public, but their private, manners that we are in search of. When the levee, or _Durbar_, is over, the great man diverts himself with his companions, and intimate friends, till dinner-time. Their amusement consists, during the first part of the day, of desultory conversation, the repetition of poems, &c., and, towards the end, the learned men, poets, &c., are introduced to rehearse their works. Should the evening not be devoted to the _zenanah_, buffoons, dancing-girls, &c., are summoned to close the entertainment.