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| 1. | Borrow's Bible in Spain. |
| 2-3. | Heber's Journals in India. |
| 4. | Irby and Mangles' Travels—Siege of Gibraltar. |
| 5. | Hay's Morocco—Letters from the Baltic. |
| 6. | The Amber Witch—Cromwell and Bunyan. |
| 7. | New South Wales—Barrow's Life of Drake. |
| 8. | Father Ripa's Memoirs—Lewis's West Indies. |
| 9. | Malcolm's Sketches of Persia. |
| 10. | French in Algiers—Fall of the Jesuits. |
| 11. | Bracebridge Hall. By Washington Irving. |
| 12. | Darwin's Voyage of a Naturalist. |
| 13. | Lord Mahon's Life of Condé. |
| 14. | Borrow's Gypsies of Spain. |
| 15. | Melville's Typee, or the Marquesas. |
| 16. | Livonian Tales—Memoirs of a Missionary. |
| 17. | Sale's Brigade—Letters from Madras. |
| 18. | St. John's Wild Sports of the Highlands. |
| 19. | Head's Pampas—Sieges of Vienna by the Turks. |
| 20. | Ford's Gatherings from Spain. |
| 21. | Sketches of German Life. |
| 22. | Melville's Omoo; or The South Seas. |
| 23. | Gleig's Battle of Waterloo. |
| 24. | The River Amazon—Wayside Cross. |
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
A POPULAR ACCOUNT
OF THE
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF INDIA.
Illustrated with Numerous Anecdotes.
BY THE
Rev. CHARLES ACLAND,
LATE CHAPLAIN AT POOREE, CUTTACK, AND MIDNAPORE.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1847.
London: Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, Stamford Street.
PREFACE.
The author of the present work was a clergyman, who,along with his wife, quitted England about the beginningof the year 1842, leaving behind him several young children,to whom, as appears from the letters he constantlyaddressed to them, he was most affectionately attached.
They left the country full of