Chapter 11

BOMBAY--(_Continued_).

Residences for the Governor--Parell--Its Gardens--Profusion of Roses--Receptions at Government-house--The evening-parties--The grounds and gardens of Parell inferior to those at Barrackpore--The Duke of Wellington partial to Parell--Anecdotes of his Grace in India--Sir James Mackintosh--His forgetfulness of India--The Horticultural Society--Malabar Point, a retreat in the hot weather--The Sea-view beautiful--The nuisance of fish--Serious effects at Bombay of the stoppage of the trade with China--Ill-condition of the poorer classes of Natives--Frequency of Fires--Houses of the Parsees--Parsee Women--Masculine air of the other Native Females of the lower orders who appear in public--Bangle-shops--Liqueur-shops--Drunkenness amongst Natives not uncommon here, from the temptations held out--The Sailors' Home--Arabs, Greeks, Chinamen--The latter few and shabby--Portuguese Padres--Superiority of the Native Town of Bombay over that of Calcutta--Statue of Lord Cornwallis--Bullock-carriages--High price and inferiority of horses in Bombay--Hay-stacks--Novel mode of stacking

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