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Show 11 almost have been passed up to the hips over the scrawny legs. There wer curious sights which T had previously thought appeared only in nightmare and in the paintings and etchings of such artists of the unreal as Gustav Doré and William Hogarth e floated noiselessly down the stream, the boatman's pole re pointed skiff went forward with a sligh lurch. T had long heard of the hostility of the Hindus toward the Mohammedans and the Mohammedan as a sacred animal, and they consume no meat, nor would they take th life of any creature; the Mohammedans kill animals and cat the flesh, the have o regard for the sacredness of the cow This d belief sometimes leadsto point in our course down th siceasteastil s ibaehiallonvinto Ve ool it i was t00 weak to disengage herself from the clay bottom of the canal. Th Mohammedans, on their bank of the waterway, were determined 1o kil the cow and make use of the meat;the Hindus from thersideof the strea strenniously objected to such s th the heavy black mud, a dozen barenecked vultures flew down and reste upon her spine, and while the illiterate men fought back and forth, th repulsive birds sank deep their beaks and ripped the flesh from the bone of the limp and dying cow. The vultures had settled the argument. Th ‘Hindus and the Mohammedans, cach clinging to his own religious teaching, returned o thersqualid huts. In India everything i Ieft to Fat, ther no struggle to retain life, and when death finally comes it comes as th only relief. . . . The Hindu boatman plunged his long pole into the cla Digital image© 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rihts reserved |