text: ) The author of the _Riaz-es-Selatin_ is indeed of opinion that such food does not suit their constitutions and would make them ill if they were to eat it"--an invaluable doctrine to establish in dieting a pauper population! "As to their dress they have barely enough to cover them--only a piece of cloth called a _dhoti_ wrapped round their loins while their head-dress consists of a dirty rag rolled two or three times round the temples and leaving the crown bare