ly, _Patal_ is
the Hindoo Hades. Raja Bali is a demon, and Indra is the lord of the
heavens. The fairs take place at the time of full moon.

4. Barrackpore, fifteen miles north of Calcutta, is still a
cantonment. The Governor General has a country house there. The
mutiny of the native troops stationed there occurred on Nov. 1, 1824,
and was due to the discontent caused by orders moving the 47th Native
Infantry to Rangoon to take part in the Burmese War. The outbreak was
promptly suppressed. Captain Pogson published a _Memoir of the Mutiny
at Barrackpore_ (8vo, Serampore, 1833).

5. Ludiana, the capital of the district of the same name, now under
the Punjab Government. Hyphasis is the Greek name of the Bias river,
one of the five rivers of the Punjab.

6. Railways have rendered almost obsolete the mode of travelling
described in the text. In Northern India palankeens (palkis) are now
seldom used, even by Indians, except for purposes of ceremony.

7. This statement is no longer quite accurate, though fortified
positions are still very few.

8. The editor cannot find the exact passage quoted, but remarks to
the same effect will be found in _The Life of Sir Thomas Munro,_ by
the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831),
vol. ii, p. 175.

9. _Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from
Calcutta to Bombay, 1834-5, and a Journey to the Southern Provinces
in 1826_ (2nd edition, 3 vols. 8vo, London, 1828.)

10. The bees at the Marble Rocks are the _Apis dorsata_. An
Englishman named Biddington, when trying to escape from them, was
drowned, and they stung to death one of Captain Forsyth's baggage
ponies (Balfour, _Cyclopaedia of India,_ 3rd ed., 1885, s.v. Bee').

11. The vast epic poem, or collection of poems known as the
Mahabharata, consists of over 100,000 Sanskrit verses. The main
subject is the war between the five Pandavas, or sons of Pandu, and
their cousins the Kauravas, sons of Dhritarashtra. Many poems of
various origins and dates are interwoven with the main work. The best
known of the episodes is that of _Nala and Damayanti,_ which was well
translated by Dean Milman, See Macdonell, _A History of Sanskrit
Literature_ (Heinemann, 1900).

12. The five Pandava brothers were Yudhishthira, Bhimia, Arjuna,
Nakula, and Sahadeva, the children of Pandu, by his wives Kunti, or
Pritha, and Madri.

13. 'The Narbada has its special admirers, who exalt it oven above
the Gang