CHAPTER LII.

A Curious Way to Secure Salvation—The Banks of the Ganges—Architecture

Represents Piety—A Trip on the River—Bathers and their Costumes

—Drinking the Water—A Scientific Test of the Nasty Purifier—Hindoo

Faith in the Ganges—A Cremation—Remembrances of the Suttee—All Life

Sacred Except Human Life—The Goddess Bhowanee, and the Sacrificers—

Sacred Monkeys—Ugly Idols Everywhere—Two White Minarets—A Great View

with a Monkey in it—A Picture on the Water

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