Meer Hassan Ali, B.: Observations on the Mussulmauns of India: descriptive of their manners, customs, habits, and religious opinions ; made during a twelve years residence in their immediate Society (Band 2) (London, 1832)

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LETTER XVIII.

Evils attending a residence in India.—Frogs.—Flies.—
Blains.-—Musquitoes.—The White Ant.—The Red Ant.—
Their destructive habits.—A Tarantula.—Black Ants.—
Locusts.—Superstition of the Natives upon their appear-
ance.—The Tufaun, or Haundhie (tempest).—The rainy
season. — Thunder and lightning. — Meteors. — Earth-
quakes.—A city ruined by them.—Reverence of the
Mussulmauns for saints.—Prickly heat.—Cholera Mor-
bus.—Mode of Treatment.—Temperance the best remedy.
—Recipe.

A residence in India, productive as it may
be (to many) of pecuniary benefits, presents,
however, a few inconveniences to Europeans
independent of climate,—which, in the absence
of more severe trials, frequently become a
source of disquiet, until habit has reconciled, or
reflection disposed the mind to receive the mix-
ture of evil and good which is the common lot