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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