He brought me attestations of a long succession of gourmands, and among them one from Lord Dalhousie, who pronounced him decidedly the first artist in Bengal.

[Lord Dalhousie, the father of the Governor-General, was Commander-In-Chief in India during the years 1830 and 1831.] This great man, and his two assistants, I am to have for thirty rupees a month.

While I am on the subject of the cuisine, I may as well say all that I have to say about it at once.

The tropical fruits are wretched.

The best of them is inferior to our apricot or gooseberry.