as well as all the inferipors, wears a doty, in the usual manner : though some few wear a kind of petticoat-trowser, not unlike the Highland kelt. Cummer-bunds are also in general use ; though, with few exceptions, of a very coarse quality. Many gentlemen presejnt their bearers, hirkarahs, peons, syces, khedmutgars, and mosaulchies, annually, with a set of turbans and cummer-bunds, all of the same color ; so that the whole appear, to a certain extent, in livery. In this indulgence many of the natives take great pride : on the whole, indeed, they are as vain as our beau-footmen ; and, like them, can assume wondrous airs, when they have to deal with the servant of a person inferior in rank to their own master. While speaking of bearers, I shall describe, íhe various, kinds of palanquins in use ; observ-ing, that the greatest improvements, which per-haps ever took place in any vehicle, have been brought forward in the construction of this sine qua non of Indian luxury. In order to preserve due order, I shall commence with a description of the naulken, or naulkee, it being the first of rank among the contrivances of this description.

This immense carriage is only used by crowned heads, and may be compared to a portable throne, on which the prince sits with his feet crossed, and tucked up under his hams, (the usual sitting position of Asiatics,) having at his bsck an im-