{116} 173 dollars the chief cabin, 117 the second (34 pounds 12s. and 23 pounds 8s.) {118} These steamers carry the mails, and make the voyage from Canton to Calcutta once a month, touching at Singapore on their way. {120a} Horses cannot be bred here; they have all to be imported. {120b} The East India Company, to which the island belongs, have a governor and English troops here. {125} The mangostan is unanimously pronounced the finest fruit in the world. {128} One of the four had been removed from the first cabin, because it was asserted that he was somewhat cracked, and did not always know what he said or did. {150} The finest and most costly muslin is manufactured in the province of Dacca, and costs two rupees (4s.), or even two rupees and a half the ell. {153} The hurgila, a kind of stork, that eats dead bodies, and is frequently to be seen near the rivers in India. {158a} At the period of my visit there were about 782 of them. {158b} Rajmahal was, in the seventeenth century, the capital of Bengal. {160a} Monghyr is termed the Birmingham of India, on account of its extensive manufactories of cutlery and weapons.