I have already explained, that earthen pipes, such as those we call ‘Dutch pipes’, are not known in India; but that the _hookah_, _kaleaun_, and _goorgoory_, are in general use, among the several classes respectively. The lowest classes of Europeans, as also of the natives, and, indeed, most of the officers of country-ships, frequently smoke _cheroots_, exactly corresponding with the Spanish _segar_, though usually made rather more bulky. However fragrant the smokers themselves may consider _cheroots_, those who use _hookahs_, hold them to be not only vulgar, but intolerable! Hence, we sometimes see a whole congregation of the latter put to the route by some one unlucky visitor, who, either from ignorance, of from disregard to the feelings of his more delicate participators in ‘the cloudy regale’, mounts his _cheroot_; thus abrogating all distinctions of musk, cinnamon, rose-water, &c. in a trice. The natives smoke _cheroots_ without any precaution whatever to guard the lips and teeth from the highly acidulated fumes derived from the burning tobacco, but when, as has sometimes been the case, _cheroots_ were brought into fashion, though but for a while, it was found expedient to have small silver or earthen sockets made, to receive the end of the _cheroot_; thereby avoiding contact with the tobacco. The natives, whether male or female, never use any sort of dentifrice, nor have they any idea of hair-brushes; which could not, indeed, according to their tenets, be admitted within the mouth. The only apparatus employed for cleaning the teeth, is a short piece of stick, commonly the branch of some bush, pulled at the moment for the occasion: this is either beat or chewed, for a short time, until the fibres, for about half an inch at the end, separate, and form a kind of stiff brush, which is applied at right angles to the teeth. This is not a very delicate implement, but, when aided by a plentiful supply of water, answers tolerably well; though it certainly can never prevent the accumulation of tartar within the teeth. Necessity has made me sometimes use the _dauntwun_, as it is called, but not without leaving considerable soreness about my gums.