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there arose a mountain densely wooded, with
nothing but thorns. While Fata Morgana and
the lions were trying to get over the mountain,
they got terribly scratched with the thorns.
However, they at last got over with much trouble,
and pursued the fugitive. * Look behind you/ j
said the horse,' and see what you can see.' ' Ah\
dear horse, Fata Morgana is close behind us.'
'Never mind, fling the last pomegranate behind
yon.' Then the prince flung the last pomegranate
behind him, and immediately a volcano arose be-
hind him, and when the lions tried to cross it,
they fell into the names and were burned. There-
upon Fata Morgana gave up the pursuit, and re-
turned to her castle."

In the story of &ringabhuja, before the Bak-
sbasa father imposes the va.ious tasks on the
prince, he requires him to choose his lady-love
out from among a hundred sisters similar in ap-
pearance and similarly dressed. The prince is
aided by the lady, who places her necklace on her
head to help him to recognize her. In the same
way in the story of the Golden Lion, second part
of Fraulein Gonzenbach's collection, page 76, the
princess puts a white cloth round her waist to j
enable her lover to recognize her. Dr. Reinholi
Kohler in his note on this story gires parallels to
this incident from the Folklore of Greece and the
Upper Palatinate.

CHAELBS H. TAWXEY,

Calcutta, 17th May 1879.

SPECDEEtf OP A DISdraSIVE GLOSSARY
OF ANGLO-INDIAN TEEMS.

BY H. Y. A3o> A. C. B.

(Continued from p.

HACKERY, s. Used by Anglo-Indians, all over
the Bengal Presidency, and formerly in Bombay
also, for » bullock-cart ; yet the word is unknown
to the natives, or, if known, is regarded as an Eng-
lish word.

E. H. Wilson, remarking that the word is
neither Hindi nor Bengali, suggests a Portuguese
original. And the Portuguese acarreto, ' carriage/
acarrctador, 'carter,' may have furnished this
original, possibly in some confusion or combination
with a native word to drive (Hind, kdnk-nd,
Dakhani hdl-nd, Mar. fcOorn&i).

The quotation from Fryer below shows that the
word was in his time nsed by the English at
Sorat, where the incident, ooourred. It must have
been carried thenoe to Bengal. But in this
quotation and in that from Grose the vehicle in-
tended is not the lumbering cart that is-now com-
monly called by this name, but the light carriage

used by native travellers of respectable position.
Such also appears jy the passage from Tennent to
be the use in Ceylon. And in Brighton's Letters
from a Mahratta Camp ,p. Io6,' tlie word' hackery*
is used for what i* usua;!y in Upper India called
an eH'ff, *"*., a li^ht carrige drawn by one pony.1

I6i)8:—*'The coich wherein I was breaking, we
were forced to mount the Indian Hackery, a Two-
wheeled Chariot, drawn by swift little Gsen.*'—
Fryer, p. 83.

1742:—''The bridges are much worn and "out
of repair by the number of Hackaries and other
carriages which are continually pacing over
them/*—iladras Board, in \Vbfceler voL ITT. p.
26-2.

Cim 1750-60:—u The Hicltr?** are a con-
veyance drawn by oxen, which would ar tV: give
one an idea of slowness thai they do not tli-serve
.... they are open on three sides, covered a-top,
and made to hold two people sitting cro^-legged.

......Each Hackrey has a driver who sits on

the shaft, and is called the hackrey-vrallah."'—
Grose, vol. I. pp. l&r-l'fi, and p. 56.

l7yS:—K At half-past six o'clock we each got
into a hacfaraij*'—Stavorinns, by Wilcocks, vol.

ni. p. m

1310:—"Acommoncrrt usually called.....

a haffafy"—Williamson. V. J/. vol. I. p. 330.

186*0:—**Native gentlemen driving fast-trotting
oxen in little hackery carts/'—Tennent'a Ceylon*
vol. IL p. MO.

Hossoy-JOBSOST, s. A native festive excitement;
a tamdthi (q. v.); a commotion.

Tkis phrase, which may perhaps now be obso-
lete, is a capital type of the lower stratum of
Anglo-Indian argot, Ifi is, or was, a part of the
dialect of the British soldier, especially in South
India, and is in fact an Anglo-Saxon version of
the waitings of the Muhammadans in the pro-
cessions of the Moharram.—" Yd Htuoix / Yd
Hassan!"

We find no literary quotation to illustrate this
phrase fully developed, but we have the embryo
in several stages.—

1698.—"About this time the Moors solemnize
the Exequies of Hawean GOWWJI."—Fryer, p. 108.

" On the Days of their Feasts and Jubilees
Gladiators were approved snd licensed, but feeling
afterwards the Evils that attended that Liberty,
which was chiefly used in their Ho&sy Gossg, any
private Grudge being then openly revenged."
.....Id* p. 867.

1721:—" Under these promising circumstances
the time came round for the Mussulman feast

called 'Howtfis 7o*$en.....better known as

the Mohurrnm."—Wheeler, vol. IL p. 34.7.

1 And wit is used still in Bombay.—ED.