ice.

Raja, a king.

Rakshas, a kind of demon that eats men and beasts.

Rani, a queen.

Rohu, a kind of big fish.

Rupee (_rupiya_), a silver coin, now worth about twenty pence.

Ryot (_raiyat_), a cultivator.

Sarai, a walled enclosure containing small houses for the use of
travellers.

Sari, a long piece of stuff which Hindu women wind round the body as a
petticoat, passing one end over the head.

Sepoy (_sipahi_), a soldier.

Wazir, prime minister.

Yogi, a Hindu religious mendicant.

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LIST OF BOOKS REFERRED TO.

Bleek. _Hottentot Fables and Tales_, London, 1864.

Campbell, J. F. _Popular Tales of the West Highlands_, 4 vols.
Edinburgh, 1860.

Dasent, G. _Norse Tales_, Edinburgh, 1859.

Dietrich, Anton. _Russische Volksmaerchen_, Leipzig, 1831.

Fiske. _Myth and Mythmakers_, London, 1873.

Frere, Miss. _Old Deccan Days_, 2nd edition, London, 1870.

Gonzenbach, Laura. _Sicilianische Maerchen_, Leipzig, 1870.

Grant, C. _Gazetteer of India for the Central Provinces_, edited by,
2nd edition, Nagpur, 1870.

Grey. _Polynesian Mythology_, London, 1855.

Grimm. _Kinder und Hausmaerchen_, 3 vols., Goettingen, first 2 vols.
1850, 3rd vol. 1856.

Grimm. _Irische Elfenmaerchen, uebersetzt von den Bruedern Grimm_,
Leipzig, 1826.

Gubernatis, Angelo de. _Zoological Mythology_, 2 vols., London, 1870.

Guest, Lady Charlotte. _The Mabinogion_, translated by, 3 vols.
Llandovery, 1849.

Haltrich, Joseph. _Deutsche Volksmaerchen aus dem Sachsenlande in
Siebenbuergen_, Berlin, 1856.

Henderson. _Folklore of the Northern Counties of England and the
Border_, London, 1866.

Hunt. _Romances and Drolls of the West of England_, 2nd edition,
London, 1871.

_Indian Antiquary_, vols. I. (1872), II. (1873), and IV. (1875),
Bombay.

Karadschitsch, W. S. _Volksmaerchen der Serben_, Berlin, 1854.

Lane. _Arabian Nights_, 3 vols., London, 1859.

_Lebar na Huidre._ Lithographic facsimile, Dublin, 1870.

Milenowsky. _Maerchen aus Boehmen_, Breslau, 1853.

Naake. _Slavonic Fairy Tales_, London, 1874.

_Old New Zealand_, 1876.

Ralston. _Songs of the Russian People_, London, 1872. _Russian Folk
Tales_, London, 1873.

Rink. _Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo_, Edinburgh and London,
1875.

_Sagas from the Far East_, London, 1873.

Schmidt, G. _Griechische Volksmaerchen, Sagen und Volkslieder_,
Leipzig, 1877.

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