Page 27.--The Rajah's seven daughters, taking it by turns to cook
their father's dinner, would be nothing unusual in the household of a
Rajah. To a chief or great man in India, it is still the most natural
precaution he can take against poison to eat nothing but what has been
prepared by his wife or daughter, or under their eye in his own
zenana; and there are few accomplishments on which an Indian princess
prides herself more than on her skill in cookery.