considered a living illustration of Shakespeare's ludicrous, but most wholesome lesson, - ' The ewe that will not hear its lamb when it bleats, will never attend to a calf when it baes.' In truth, some of these ladies ride upon very high horses, and keep the whip-hand most manfully! a circumstance we should by no means expect, after hearing, perhaps, that their respective names were ' Chembayly,' (jasmine,) ' Golaub,' (rose-water.) ' Miscery, ' (sugar,) ' Gool-beegum,' (queen of roses,) ' Meevah-Jehan,' (the fruit of life:) though, perhaps, those known by the name of ' Soorooj,' (i. e. the sun,) might lay claim to some authority, without acting so grossly in opposition to their nomenclature.

When we consider the very severe privation experienced by females in general, (for our country-women often affect to adopt the recluse severities of the haram;) it cannot appear surprizing, that young girls so immured, in such a climate, so indulged occasionally, and so beset with bawds, should allow themselves to be led astray from what I must, perhaps erroneously, call ' the ways of chastity.' I am aware, that the term may offend many, who consider the female as being already in a state of prostitution; but due allowance must be made for the usages of the country. In India, a woman ' under the pro-tection' of an European gentleman, is accounted, not only among the natives, but even by his