SECTION 1. - INSIDE (_at home _).

The house must be situated well, at the edge of a pure water, in a city or a village, or a house of pleasure.

The internal apartments are on backs, those of reception on the front, all are comfortably furnished and decorated tastefully.

CARE OF HYGIÈNE. - Every day the bath and the friction of the body with some oil; every three days, application of lacquer in all the body; every four days, to shave the whole head; and every five or ten days, all the body.

EMPLOYMENT ( USE ? ) OF the TEMPS. - Three meals a day, in the morning, at noon and at night; the bath, the siesta; white and elegant clothes; flowers, aviary; the morning, some games and entertainments with parasites, and after noon with friends.

After the lunch, the lesson to speak about datum to the parrots and the other birds, then cock fights of quails and pigeons.

In the evening, the song; then the host, with his ( her ? ) friends, waits, in the well decorated and fragrant reception hall of essences, for the arrival of his ( her ? ) mistress ( teacher ? ); this one, when she ( it ? ) appears, is received with the compliments of custom ( usage ? ); she ( it ? ) holds with all a pleasant ( kind ? ) and soft conversation.

When she has to cross ( spend ? ) all night at her lover, she ( it ? ) comes bathed, fragrant and adorned there; his ( her ? ) lover offers him ( her ? ) refreshments; he makes her ( it ? ) sit ( base ? ) to his left, takes him ( her ? ) hair between the hands, also gets ( touches ? ) the end and the knot of his garment of bottom and surrounds it slowly with his right hand. Then undertakes a light and varied conversation; we hold agile and joyful comments; we treat ( handle ? ) rocky or courteous subjects. Then we sing with or without gestures; we make some music, we drink by getting excited to drink.

Finally, when the woman, warmed by these provocations in the love, betrays her desires, the boss dismisses all those who are near him by giving them flowers, bouquets and sheets ( leaves ? ) of béthel [14].

[ Note 14: in the manners of India, it is the host, the one to which we make visit, which gives the signal for departure to the guest.]

Both lovers remain alone. Having enjoyed the pleasure their will, they get up chastely and, without looking, go away, separately, in the bathroom which is, in India, the room of the bath.

They then mean sitting down the one near the other one and chew some sheets ( leaves ? ) of béthel. Then the man, with his own hands, rubs the body of the woman with an ointment of pure wood of sandal, or another nice-smelling essence; then he ( it ? ) interwines ( embraces ? ) him ( it ? ) in his ( its ? ) left hand, and while liking him ( her ? ) of sweet comment, he ( it ? ) makes him ( her ? ) drink, in a cup ( cutting ? ) which he ( it ? ) holds of the right hand, an exciting and fragrant drink; they eat together cakes and sweets, take consommés and soup of hulled grain, drink some fresh ( cool ? ) coconut milk, sherbets, juice of mangoes and sweet lemon; finally, they so savor, in the intimacy, all that the country produces of pleasant, sweet and pure.

Often also, both lovers go ( take ? ) up on the terrace of the house to enjoy some moonlight and talk pleasantly. At this moment, while the woman is on the knees the face turned to the moon, the lover indicates ( appoints ? ) him ( her ? ) of the hand the different planets, the morning star, the pole star, the constellations [ 15 ].

[ Note 15: the magnificent nights of India look to it spend time a big charm.]