Transcriber’s Note:

Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Pleasesee the transcriber’s note at the end of this textfor details regarding the handling of any textual issues encounteredduring its preparation.

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ITHE
EAST INDIA
VADE-MECUM.

THE
EAST INDIA
VADE-MECUM;

OR,
Complete Guide
TO
GENTLEMEN INTENDED FOR THE
CIVIL, MILITARY, OR NAVAL SERVICE
OF THE
HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY.

BY
CAPTAIN THOMAS WILLIAMSON,
Author of ‘The Wild Sports of the East.’
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.

LONDON:
PRINTED FOR BLACK, PARRY, AND KINGSBURY,
Booksellers to the Honorable East India Company,
7,
LEADENHALL-STREET.

1810.

v

CONTENTS
OF
VOL. II.

PAGES
 
Great Heats, modes of refrigeration, general plan of building, various kinds of lime and cement, tarras floors1-16
 
Pucka and Cutcha houses, ancient buildings, white-ants, sleeping in the open air, floors on pots, north-westers, bungalows and out-offices, mats of sorts, satrinjes, cheeks, glass windows, talc as a substitute, Chalk-Hills, purdahs17-53
 
Various kinds of timber, modes of floating them, prices, and uses, mango-fruit, and plantations54-84
 
Bamboos, mode of fitting-out trading-boats, toddy-tree, coir rigging,
...

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