The houses of the peasants in the villages are, for the most part, covered with mud, from which the water is carried off, by tubes of wood or baked clay, about two feet long.

There are parapets around the roof a foot or two high, so that it cannot be seen, and a village appears to be a mass of dead mud walls, which have been robbed of their thatched or tiled roofs.

Most of the tubes used for carrying off the water from the roofs, are the simple branches of the palm-tree, without their leaves.
Among the peasantry we saw a great many sipahees, from our Native Infantry Regiments, who have come home on furlough to their families.
From the estate of Rajah Hunmunt Sing, in the Banoda district, there are one thousand sipahees in our service.

From that of Benee Madho, in the Byswara district, there are still more.

They told us that they and their families were very happy, and they seemed to be so; but Hunmunt Sing said, they were a privileged class, who gave much trouble and annoyance, and were often the terror of their non- privileged neighbours and co-sharers in the land.