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THE GENERAL EAST INDIA GUIDE AND VADE MECUM; FOR THE PUBLIC FUNCTIONARY, GOVERNMENT OFFICER, PRIVATE AGENT, TRADER OR FOREIGN SOJOURNER, IN BRITISH INDIA, And the Adjacent Parts of Asia, IMMEDIATELY CONNECTED WITH THE HONOURABLE THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, BEING A DIGEST OF THE WORK OF THE LATE CAPT. WILLIAMSON, With many Improvements and Additions; EMBRACING THE MOST VALUABLE PARTS OF SIMILAR PUBLICATIONS ON THE STATISTICS, LITERATURE, OFFICIAL DUTIES, AND SOCIAL ECONOMY OF LIFE AND CONDUCT IN THAT INTERESTING QUARTER OF THE WORLD.
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BY
J. B. Gilchrist, LL.D.
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY KINGSBURY, PARBURY, & ALLEN,
BOOKSELLERS TO THE HON. EAST INDIA COMPANY, LEADENHALL STREET.
1825.
*Editor's introduction by Frances W. Pritchett, 2008*

The original 1810 edition, by Thomas Williamson: *Williamson 1810 vol. 1*; *Williamson 1810 vol. 2*

*Author's preface by Gilchrist, 1825*
*(1)* Instructions to Persons proceeding to India, respecting appointments, outfit, and precautions to be observed [[1-16]]
*(2)* Rates of passage, accommodations, and customs on board ship [[17-27]]
*(3)* Diseases and remedies [[27-31]]
*(4)* Embarkation, probable length of passage [[31-35]]
*(5)* Conduct on board ship [[35-41]]
*(6)* Regulations respecting officers, crew, &c. [[41-42]]
*(7)* Music on board ship -- precautions respecting the care of Instruments [[42-44]]
*(8)* Sea sickness [[44-47]]
*(9)* Third mate's mess [[47-48]]
*(10)* Fishing [[48-51]]
*(11)* Course to India -- Portuguese, Rio Janeiro [[51-55]]
*(12)* Crossing the Line -- Sabbath on board ship -- Funerals at Sea -- Cape of Good Hope [[55-60]]
*(13)* St. Augustine's Bay, Johanna, Ceylon [[60-63]]
*(14)* Madras, Masoolah-boats, Dobhashiyas, coins [[63-68]]
*(15)* Voyage from Madras to Bengal, Chuokee Boats, Pilot vessels, Baleswur, Kedgeree, Pinnace, Budjrow [[68-71]]
*(16)* Precautions on leaving the Ship -- Fire-fly -- Exchange of Coins -- Letters of credit -- of introduction -- Cautions respecting taverns, servants, &c. [[72-85]]
*(17)* Estimate of primary and current expenses [[85-90]]
*(18)* Acquirement of the language [[90-93]]
*(19)* Reasons for retaining a number of servants, religious scruples [[93-97]]
*(20)* Classification of servants [[97-98]]
*(21)* Baniayn and Darogha [[98-100]]
*(22)* Moonshee, Jummadar, Chob-dar, Soonta-burdar, Khansaman, Sirkar, Kranee [[100-112]]
*(23)* Khidmutgar, Mushuulchee, Hookuh-burdar, Hookuh, Kaleaun, Goorgoory, and Neriaul [[112-122]]
*(24)* Modes of carrying water, Bheesty, Tatties [[122-127]]
*(25)* Bawur-chee, Durzee, Doby, Mohout, Mate, and Surwan [[127-138]]
*(26)* Su,ee, Grass-cutter, Doob or Sun-grass, Malee, gardens of Europeans, mode of drawing water [[138-146]]
*(27)* Ab-dar, Compadore, Hurkaru, Dufturee, Furrash, Mihtur, Doriya, mode of keeping and feeding dogs [[146-155]]
*(28)* Khulasee, Manjy, Goleeah, and Dandy [[155-159]]
*(29)* Berriarah, sheep, mode of fattening them [[159-163]]
*(30)* Chuokeedars, audacity of thieves [[163-164]]
*(31)* Durwan, Cahar, insolence of the Ooriya bearers [[164-172]]
*(32)* Hints respecting the lading of cattle [[172]]
*(33)* Umbrellas, punk,has, liveries [[172-173]]
*(34)* Palkeen, naulkeen, dooly, mahannah-palanquin, boc,ha, taum-jaung, bangy [[173-179]]
*(35)* R,hut, g'horry-waun, fine breed of oxen, their speed, hackery [[179-183]]
*(36)* Cautions against engaging European servants, either male or female [[183-185]]
*(37)* Portuguese Ayas, ridiculously vain of their genealogies [[185-187]]
*(38)* Hindoostanee Aya [[187-188]]
*(39)* Da,ee, high rate of interest, shroffs ((+domestic secrets)) [[188-189]]

[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Domestic manners and customs of the natives, with details of the state of society among them*]

*(40)* Flying kites -- great dexterity, natives peculiarly tenacious of privacy in their dwellings [[189-192]]

[Omitted by Gilchrist: *European polygamy, characters of women generally domiciliatcd by Europeans, ordinary expences*]

*(41)* Dress and ornaments of a Hindoostanee lady [[192-200]]
*(42)* Scented oils, utr of roses [[200-202]]
*(43)* Unctions in general use, bathing, alligators [[202-206]]
*(44)* Invitations, visiting, loud music [[206-207]]

[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Reasons for Europeans retaining native women, and impediments in the way of marriage*]

*(45)* Orphan Institution [[207-212]]
*(46)* Vaccination in Bengal, mode of inoculating in use among the Brahmins, and among the Pahariyas [[212-218]]
*(47)* Native Hospital at Calcutta [[218-219]]
*(48)* Style of building among the natives, mode of thatching, domestic furniture, the beetle-leaf and plant [[219-230]]
*(49)* Cheroots, women smokers [[230-232]]

[Omitted by Gilchrist: *Mirza Alu Taaleb Khan, his ingratitude and vanity, comparison of his poetry with that of Hafiz and Yuqueen*]

*(50)* Precautions against fire, heavy rains, protection against them [[232-235]]
*(51)* Bungalows, bricklayers, houses smeared with cow-dung, mindy applied to hands and feet, hinnah [[235-239]]
*(52)* Great heats, modes of refrigeration, general plan of building, various kinds of lime and cement, tarras floors, cutcha houses, ancient buildings, white ants, sleeping in the open air, floors on pots, north-westers, bungalows and out-offices [[239-260]]
*(53)* Mats of various sorts, satrinje, cheeks, glass windows, talc as a substitute, purdahs [[260-268]]
*(54)* Various kinds of timber, modes of floating them, prices and uses, mango-fruit, and plantations [[268-285]]
*(55)* Bamboos, mode of fitting-out trading-boats, taul or toddy tree, coir rigging, cocoa-nuts, oil from them, momiye-ka-tel, writing on cocoa-tree leaves, hot winds [[285-300]];
*(56)* State of society among Europeans, sitting-up, meals, wines, malt liquors, levees, sugar-candy, bread, camp-ovens, milk, ghee-butter, meats, buffaloes [[300-325]]
*(57)* Wines, spirits, fish, poultry, table apparatus, furniture, china-bazar, Europe shops, wax and candles, insects, snakes of various sorts, antidotes to their poison, musquitoes, and curtains to repel them, cock-roaches, scorpions, centipedes, wasps, hornets, shampooing [[325-355]]
*(58)* Amusements, theatres, races, gaming, music, balls, Fort William, military establishments [[355-363]]
*(59)* Bore, brackish waters, preservation of rain-water [[363-367]]
*(60)* Great rivers, physical properties, fossile alkali, streams impregnated with minerals, inundations, Hindoo corpses, plague not known in India [[367-387]]
*(61)* Tanks and jeels, eleemosynary alligators, seraies, gunjes, durgaws, Hill people, bunds, wells on great roads, hot-springs, sol-lunar influence on fevers, Hukeems, state of medicine, refrigerating principle, state of learning, Koits, Lalahs, useful books, Seek College [[387-420]]
*(62)* Posts, and conveyance of parcels, &c., travelling in a palanquin, swelling of rivers, rice, mode of expelling weevils, meal from barley, wheat [[420-437]]
*(63)* Travelling by water, the Sunderbunds, fire-wood, sharks, bull-headed alligator [[437-442]]
*(64)* Opinions respecting Gour, and the great Delta of the Ganges [[442-447]]
*(65)* Salt Manufacture [[447-448]]
*(66)* Hire of budjrows, rates and distances, precautions, contraband trade, trading and baggage boats, tracking, Decoits, or pirates, guards requisite, Coolees, Chuokeedars, and Dowraws, expert thieves, anecdotes, leger de main, puppet-shows, gymnastic feasts, Nuts or Indian gypsies, dancers [[448-478]]
*(67)* Slavery, how far tolerated; summary punishment of adultery [[478-481]]
*(68)* Carriage of baggage, elephants, camels, bullocks, horses, horse furniture [[481-508]]
*(69)* Improvements in manufactures, newspapers, scribes [[508-509]]

[Omitted by Gilchrist:  *The Mocurrery or perpetual System of Revenue*]

*(70)* Increase of the Company's servants, judicial proceedings, farmers, middle-men, peasants [[509-511]]
*(71)* Collections of revenues, increase of exportation, security of property, agency-houses, exchanges, commerce and situation of Calcutta, donies [[511-517]]
*(72)* Steam Navigation to India, Bengal Sugar Company, Free Sugar Company [[517-518]]
*(73)* Letters from Colonel Nugent [[518-526]]

APPENDICES:

*(Appendix I.)* -- Articles required in an out-fit [[527-535]]

(Appendix II.) -- Extracts from Dr. Gilchrist's Dialogues, English and Hindoostanee [[536-637]] == *[Part 1, pp. 536-55]*; *[Part 2, pp. 555-57]*; *[Part 3, pp 572-602]*; *[pp. 602-637, a brief basic grammar and vocabulary list]*

*(Appendix III.)* -- Miscellaneous Remarks, Regulations, Orders, etc. [[638-651]]
*(Appendix IV.)* -- General Observations on the Vade Mecum, and other congenial topics [[652-669]]