(_Military Memoirs of Mr. George Thomas, London reprint_, p. 112.)
The Sikh states of the Panjab are now sufficiently well governed.
22. I know of no authority for the name Charat (Churut), which seems
to be a blunder for Satrughna. The sons of Dasaratha were Rama, by
the chief queen; Bharat, by a second; and Lachhman (Lakshmana), and
Satrughna by a third consort.
23. The species referred to is the long-tailed monkey called
'Hanuman', and 'langur' in Hindi, the _Presbytis entellus_ of Jerdon
(=_P. anchises_, Elliot; = _Semnopithecus_, Cuvier).
24. The author seems to have forgotten that he has already told this
story, _ante_, this chapter following [8] in the text.
25. It is in the Mathura district. The town of Mathura (Muttra)
became the head-quarters of a separate District in 1832. The official
at Govardhan in 1836 must, therefore, have been subordinate to
Mathura, not to Agra.
CHAPTER 57
Veracity.
The people of Britain are described by Diodorus Siculus (Book V,
chap. 2) as in a very simple and rude state, subsisting almost
entirely on the produce of the land, but as being 'a people of much
integrity and sincerity, far from the craft and knavery of men among
us, contented with plain and homely fare, and strangers to the
luxuries and excesses of the rich'.
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