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THE GENERAL EAST INDIA GUIDE AND
VADE MECUM; FOR THE PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY, GOVERNMENT
OFFICER, PRIVATE
AGENT,
TRADER OR FOREIGN SOJOURNER, IN BRITISH INDIA, And
the
Adjacent Parts of Asia, IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH
THE HONOURABLE
THE
EAST INDIA COMPANY, BEING A DIGEST OF THE
WORK OF THE LATE
CAPT.
WILLIAMSON, With many Improvements and Additions;
EMBRACING THE MOST
VALUABLE
PARTS OF SIMILAR PUBLICATIONS ON THE STATISTICS,
LITERATURE, OFFICIAL
DUTIES,
AND SOCIAL ECONOMY OF LIFE AND CONDUCT IN THAT
INTERESTING QUARTER OF
THE
WORLD.
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BY
J.
B. Gilchrist, LL.D.
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY KINGSBURY, PARBURY, & ALLEN,
BOOKSELLERS TO THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY, LEADENHALL
STREET.
1825.
*Editor's
introduction by Frances
W. Pritchett, 2008*
The original 1810 edition,
by
Thomas Williamson:
*Williamson 1810
vol. 1*; *Williamson
1810
vol.
2*
*Author's
preface by
Gilchrist,
1825*
*(1)*
Instructions to
Persons
proceeding to India, respecting appointments, outfit,
and precautions
to
be observed [[1-16]]
*(2)* Rates of
passage, accommodations,
and customs on board ship [[17-27]]
*(3)* Diseases
and
remedies
[[27-31]]
*(4)*
Embarkation,
probable
length of passage [[31-35]]
*(5)* Conduct
on
board ship
[[35-41]]
*(6)*
Regulations
respecting
officers, crew, &c. [[41-42]]
*(7)* Music on
board
ship --
precautions respecting the care of Instruments
[[42-44]]
*(8)* Sea
sickness
[[44-47]]
*(9)* Third
mate's
mess [[47-48]]
*(10)* Fishing
[[48-51]]
*(11)* Course
to
India -- Portuguese,
Rio Janeiro [[51-55]]
*(12)*
Crossing the
Line --
Sabbath on board ship -- Funerals at Sea -- Cape of
Good Hope [[55-60]]
*(13)* St.
Augustine's Bay,
Johanna, Ceylon [[60-63]]
*(14)* Madras,
Masoolah-boats,
Dobhashiyas, coins [[63-68]]
*(15)* Voyage
from
Madras to
Bengal, Chuokee Boats, Pilot vessels, Baleswur,
Kedgeree, Pinnace,
Budjrow
[[68-71]]
*(16)*
Precautions on
leaving
the Ship -- Fire-fly -- Exchange of Coins -- Letters
of credit -- of
introduction
-- Cautions respecting taverns, servants, &c.
[[72-85]]
*(17)*
Estimate of
primary
and current expenses [[85-90]]
*(18)*
Acquirement of
the language
[[90-93]]
*(19)* Reasons
for
retaining
a number of servants, religious scruples [[93-97]]
*(20)*
Classification
of servants
[[97-98]]
*(21)* Baniayn
and
Darogha
[[98-100]]
*(22)*
Moonshee,
Jummadar,
Chob-dar, Soonta-burdar, Khansaman, Sirkar, Kranee
[[100-112]]
*(23)*
Khidmutgar,
Mushuulchee,
Hookuh-burdar, Hookuh, Kaleaun, Goorgoory, and Neriaul
[[112-122]]
*(24)* Modes
of
carrying water,
Bheesty, Tatties [[122-127]]
*(25)*
Bawur-chee,
Durzee,
Doby, Mohout, Mate, and Surwan [[127-138]]
*(26)* Su,ee,
Grass-cutter,
Doob or Sun-grass, Malee, gardens of Europeans, mode
of drawing water
[[138-146]]
*(27)* Ab-dar,
Compadore, Hurkaru,
Dufturee, Furrash, Mihtur, Doriya, mode of keeping and
feeding dogs
[[146-155]]
*(28)*
Khulasee,
Manjy, Goleeah,
and Dandy [[155-159]]
*(29)*
Berriarah,
sheep, mode
of fattening them [[159-163]]
*(30)*
Chuokeedars,
audacity
of thieves [[163-164]]
*(31)* Durwan,
Cahar,
insolence
of the Ooriya bearers [[164-172]]
*(32)* Hints
respecting the
lading of cattle [[172]]
*(33)*
Umbrellas,
punk,has,
liveries [[172-173]]
*(34)*
Palkeen,
naulkeen, dooly,
mahannah-palanquin, boc,ha, taum-jaung, bangy
[[173-179]]
*(35)* R,hut,
g'horry-waun,
fine breed of oxen, their speed, hackery [[179-183]]
*(36)*
Cautions
against engaging
European servants, either male or female [[183-185]]
*(37)*
Portuguese
Ayas, ridiculously
vain of their genealogies [[185-187]]
*(38)*
Hindoostanee
Aya [[187-188]]
*(39)* Da,ee,
high
rate of
interest, shroffs ((+domestic secrets)) [[188-189]]
[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Domestic
manners and customs of the natives, with details
of the state of
society
among them*]
*(40)* Flying
kites
-- great dexterity,
natives peculiarly tenacious of privacy in their
dwellings [[189-192]]
[Omitted by Gilchrist: *European
polygamy, characters of women generally
domiciliatcd by Europeans,
ordinary
expences*]
*(41)* Dress
and
ornaments of a
Hindoostanee lady [[192-200]]
*(42)* Scented
oils,
utr of
roses [[200-202]]
*(43)*
Unctions in
general
use, bathing, alligators [[202-206]]
*(44)*
Invitations,
visiting,
loud music [[206-207]]
[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Reasons
for Europeans retaining native women, and
impediments in the way of
marriage*]
*(45)* Orphan
Institution [[207-212]]
*(46)*
Vaccination in
Bengal,
mode of inoculating in use among the Brahmins, and
among the Pahariyas
[[212-218]]
*(47)* Native
Hospital at Calcutta
[[218-219]]
*(48)* Style
of
building among
the natives, mode of thatching, domestic furniture,
the beetle-leaf and
plant [[219-230]]
*(49)*
Cheroots,
women smokers
[[230-232]]
[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Mirza
Alu Taaleb Khan, his ingratitude and vanity,
comparison of his poetry
with
that of Hafiz and Yuqueen*]
*(50)*
Precautions
against fire,
heavy rains, protection against them [[232-235]]
*(51)*
Bungalows,
bricklayers,
houses smeared with cow-dung, mindy applied to hands
and feet, hinnah
[[235-239]]
*(52)* Great
heats,
modes of
refrigeration, general plan of building, various kinds
of lime and
cement,
tarras floors, cutcha houses, ancient buildings, white
ants, sleeping
in
the open air, floors on pots, north-westers, bungalows
and out-offices
[[239-260]]
*(53)* Mats of
various sorts,
satrinje, cheeks, glass windows, talc as a substitute,
purdahs
[[260-268]]
*(54)* Various
kinds
of timber,
modes of floating them, prices and uses, mango-fruit,
and plantations
[[268-285]]
*(55)*
Bamboos, mode
of fitting-out
trading-boats, taul or toddy tree, coir rigging,
cocoa-nuts, oil from
them,
momiye-ka-tel, writing on cocoa-tree leaves, hot winds
[[285-300]];
*(56)* State
of
society among
Europeans, sitting-up, meals, wines, malt liquors,
levees, sugar-candy,
bread, camp-ovens, milk, ghee-butter, meats, buffaloes
[[300-325]]
*(57)* Wines,
spirits, fish,
poultry, table apparatus, furniture, china-bazar,
Europe shops, wax and
candles, insects, snakes of various sorts, antidotes
to their poison,
musquitoes,
and curtains to repel them, cock-roaches, scorpions,
centipedes, wasps,
hornets, shampooing [[325-355]]
*(58)*
Amusements,
theatres,
races, gaming, music, balls, Fort William, military
establishments
[[355-363]]
*(59)* Bore,
brackish
waters,
preservation of rain-water [[363-367]]
*(60)* Great
rivers,
physical
properties, fossile alkali, streams impregnated with
minerals,
inundations,
Hindoo corpses, plague not known in India [[367-387]]
*(61)* Tanks
and
jeels, eleemosynary
alligators, seraies, gunjes, durgaws, Hill people,
bunds, wells on
great
roads, hot-springs, sol-lunar influence on fevers,
Hukeems, state of
medicine,
refrigerating principle, state of learning, Koits,
Lalahs, useful
books,
Seek College [[387-420]]
*(62)* Posts,
and
conveyance
of parcels, &c., travelling in a palanquin,
swelling of rivers,
rice,
mode of expelling weevils, meal from barley, wheat
[[420-437]]
*(63)*
Travelling by
water,
the Sunderbunds, fire-wood, sharks, bull-headed
alligator [[437-442]]
*(64)*
Opinions
respecting
Gour, and the great Delta of the Ganges [[442-447]]
*(65)* Salt
Manufacture [[447-448]]
*(66)* Hire of
budjrows, rates
and distances, precautions, contraband trade, trading
and baggage
boats,
tracking, Decoits, or pirates, guards requisite,
Coolees, Chuokeedars,
and Dowraws, expert thieves, anecdotes, leger de main,
puppet-shows,
gymnastic
feasts, Nuts or Indian gypsies, dancers [[448-478]]
*(67)*
Slavery, how
far tolerated;
summary punishment of adultery [[478-481]]
*(68)*
Carriage of
baggage,
elephants, camels, bullocks, horses, horse furniture
[[481-508]]
*(69)*
Improvements
in manufactures,
newspapers, scribes [[508-509]]
[Omitted by Gilchrist:
*The
Mocurrery or perpetual System of Revenue*]
*(70)*
Increase of
the Company's
servants, judicial proceedings, farmers, middle-men,
peasants
[[509-511]]
*(71)*
Collections of
revenues,
increase of exportation, security of property,
agency-houses,
exchanges,
commerce and situation of Calcutta, donies [[511-517]]
*(72)* Steam
Navigation to
India, Bengal Sugar Company, Free Sugar Company
[[517-518]]
*(73)* Letters
from
Colonel
Nugent [[518-526]]
APPENDICES:
*(Appendix
I.)*
--
Articles
required in an out-fit [[527-535]]
(Appendix II.) -- Extracts from Dr.
Gilchrist's Dialogues,
English and Hindoostanee [[536-637]] == *[Part
1, pp. 536-55]*; *[Part 2, pp.
555-57]*;
*[Part 3, pp 572-602]*;
*[pp.
602-637, a brief basic grammar and vocabulary list]*
*(Appendix
III.)*
--
Miscellaneous
Remarks, Regulations, Orders, etc. [[638-651]]
*(Appendix
IV.)*
-- General
Observations on the Vade Mecum, and other congenial
topics [[652-669]]
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