THE

E AS T I N D I A

SKETCH-BOOK:

COMPRISING AN

ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT STATE OF SOCIETY

IN CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, &c.

The poor exile
Feels, in each action of the varied day,
His doom of banishment. The very air
Cools not his brow as in his native land ;
The scene is strange, the food is loathly to him;
The language, nay, the music, jars his ear.

WALTER Scott.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
(LATE COLBURN AND BENTLEY.)

1832.