Although _charpoys_, or small beds, are in use among all classes, the generality prefer sleeping on mats, which are infinitely cooler than any beddings. The whole of the apparatus for a dormitory may be comprised in a very short catalogue; namely, a _durmah-mat_, made from coarse reeds split open and laid flat, with the glossy surface uppermost; perhaps a _satrinje_, or small cotton carpet, a _chudder_, or sheet, to wrap round the body, and a _tuckeah_, or pillow, stuffed very hard. In cold weather, a _goodry_, or quilt; perhaps, indeed, two, may be added. Curtains are out of the question, as are all those paraphernalia which luxury has introduced among us. A _peek-daun_, or spitting pot, made generally of _phool_, which is a very tolerable kind of tutenagne, is always placed at the bed side, and is ever resorted to when chewing the _pawn_, or beetle. The vine bearing the aromatic leaf so called, is most carefully cultivated in many parts of the country; the whole being supported on trellisses made of reeds, and small bamboos, to the height of about five feet. The situation must be very dry; hence, the banks of old tanks, and other such elevated sites, are chosen for cultivating the _pawn_, of which it is said a _bigah_ will produce, in the vicinity of any populous city, full two hundred rupees yearly; provided the vines be of the _sunҫhah_, or true sort; which is easily known by the yellowness of the borders, and ramifications, of the leaf. This species is far more pleasant to the palate than the common green kind; which is, besides, tough, and possesses a certain acrid quality. _Beetle_, or _pawn_, is prepared by carefully picking out any defects in the leaves, and by removing the stalks up to their very centres; four or five leaves are then laid one above the other, when the upper one is smeared with shell-lime, a little moistened with water. The seeds of the _elatchee_, or cardamom, are added, together with about the fourth part of a _beetle-nut_, (that is, of the _areca_,) and, the whole being lapped up by folding the leaves over their contents, the little packet is kept together in its due form, which is usually triangular, by means of a slice of _beetle-nut_, cut into a thin wedge, so as to transfix it completely. It is common to see a whole family partaking of _pawns_, the chewing of which occasions the saliva to be tinctured as red as blood: they certainly are fragrant, and excellent stomachics; but their too frequent use produces costiveness, which, in that climate, ever induces serious illness.