them; and with it many lesser boats, with thatched and sloping roofs. The dandies[1] and native servants, having finished their day's work, were preparing their khauna, in distinct parties, according to their several casts, upon the banks of the river: some grinding their mussala,[2] some lighting their little fires, some washing their brass vessels, and others sitting in a circle upon the ground smoking their cocoa-nut hoo-
