f it which ventures to read these pages,
will think that it had been better had I not been left even the
little leisure that has been devoted to them.

Your ever affectionate brother,

W. H. SLEEMAN.

CONTENTS

AUTHOR'S DEDICATION

EDITOR'S PREFACES

MEMOIR

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHAPTER 1
Annual Fairs held on the Banks of Sacred Streams in India

CHAPTER 2
Hindoo System of Religion

CHAPTER 3
Legend of the Nerbudda River

CHAPTER 4
A Suttee on the Nerbudda

CHAPTER 5
Marriages of Trees--The Tank and the Plantain--Meteors--Rainbows

CHAPTER 6
Hindoo Marriages

CHAPTER 7
The Purveyance System

CHAPTER 8
Religious Sects--Self-government of the Castes--Chimneysweepers--
Washerwomen [1]--Elephant Drivers

CHAPTER 9
The Great Iconoclast--Troops routed by Hornets--The Rani of
Garha--Hornets' Nests in India

CHAPTER 10
The Peasantry and the Land Settlement

CHAPTER 11
Witchcraft

CHAPTER 12
The Silver Tree, or 'Kalpa Briksha'--The 'Singhara', or _Trapa
bispinosa_, and the Guinea-Worm

CHAPTER 13
Thugs and Poisoners

CHAPTER 14
Basaltic Cappings of the Sandstone Hills of Central India--Suspension
Bridge--Prospects of the Nerbudda Valley--Deification of a Mortal

CHAPTER 15
Legend of the Sagar Lake--Paralysis from eating the Grain of the
_Lathyrus sativus_

CHAPTER 16
Suttee Tombs--Insalubrity of deserted Fortresses

CHAPTER 17
Basaltic Cappings--Interview with a Native Chief--A Singular
Character

CHAPTER 18
Birds' Nests--Sports of Boyhood

CHAPTER 19
Feeding Pilgrims--Marriage of a Stone with a Shrub

CHAPTER 20
The Men-Tigers

CHAPTER 21
Burning of Deori by a Freebooter--A Suttee

CHAPTER 22
Interview with the Raja who marries the Stone to the Shrub--Order of
the Moon and the Fish

CHAPTER 23
The Raja of Orchha--Murder of his many Ministers

CHAPTER 24
Corn Dealers--Scarcities--Famines in India

CHAPTER 25
Epidemic Diseases--Scape-goat

CHAPTER 26
Artificial Lakes in Bundelkhand-Hindoo, Greek, and Roman Faith

CHAPTER 27
Blights

CHAPTER 28
Pestle-and-Mortar Sugar-Mills--Washing away of the Soil

CHAPTER 29
Interview with the Chiefs of Jhansi--Disputed Succession

CHAPTER 30
Haunted Villages

CHAPTER 31
Interview with the Raja of Datiya--Fiscal Errors of Statesmen--
Thieves and Robbers by Profession

CHAPTER 32
Sporting at Datiya--Fidelity of Followers to their Chiefs in India--
Law of Primogeniture wanting among Muhammadans

CHAPTER 33
'Bhu