_Reasons for Europeans retaining native women, and 451 . 458 impediments in the way of marriage_ _Orphan Institution_ 459 . 468 _Vaccination in Bengal, mode of inoculating in use 469 . 475 among the Brahmans, and among the Pahariahs, making capons_ _The Native Hospital at Calcutta_ 479 . 482 _Style of building among the natives, mode of 483 . 498 thatching, domestic furniture, the beetle-leaf and plant_ _Cheroots, women smokers, imitations of native 499 . 502 manners, dress, &c., and vice versâ_ _Mirza Alu Taaleb Khan, his ingratitude and 503 . 509 vanity, comparison of his poetry with that of Hafiz and Yuqueen_ _Precautions against fire, heavy rains, protection 509 . 514 against them_ _Bungalows, bricklayers, carpenter and smith, 514 . 520 houses smeared with cow-dung, mindy applied to hands and feet_ THE _EAST INDIA_ VADE-MECUM. [Illustration] The consideration, that great numbers of young gentlemen proceed to India without the smallest idea of the customs, &c. peculiar to that country whither they are adventuring; and, that the want of some previous instruction has often proved of the greatest inconvenience; first induced me to assume the pen, for the purpose of submitting, to those under such circumstances, the result of a long residence in Bengal. When it is understood, that, merely owing to the absence of any experienced friend, or to the impossibility of obtaining some publication suited to guide under a case of no small difficulty, not only many a guinea, which could perhaps be ill spared, is thrown away, but many a lasting injury entailed, little apology need be offered for that earnestness with which I recommend my volumes to the attention, not only of those who are about to proceed to the East, but of such as have relatives, or friends, in that remote quarter.