One of the Rajahs of this family, who called on me to-day, declared that no member of his family had ever been known to die of such a bite, and he could account for it only "from their being descended from Salbahun, the rival and conqueror of Bickermajeet, of Ojein." This Salbahun* is said to have been a lineal descendant of the _sake- god!_ He told me that the females of this family could never wear cotton cloth of any colour but plain white; that when they could not afford to wear silk or satin they never wore anything but the piece of white cotton cloth which formed, in one, the waistband, petticoat, and mantle, or robe (the dhootee and loongree), without hemming or needlework of any kind whatever.

Those who can afford to wear silk or satin wear the petticoat and robe, or mantle of that material, and of any colour.

On their ankles they can wear nothing but silver, and above the ankles, nothing but gold; and if not, nothing, not even silver, except on the feet and ankles.

No Hindoo of respectability, however high or wealthy, can wear anything more valuable than silver below the waist.

The Tilokchundee Byses can never condescend to hold the plough; and if obliged to serve, they enlist in the army or other public establishments of the Oude or other States.
[* Salbahun must have been one of the leaders of the Scythian armies, who conquered India in the reign of Vickramadittea.] The late governor of this district, Hamid Allee Khan, is now, as I have already stated, in prison, as a great defaulter, at Lucknow.