India and daily life in Bengal . A typical Bengal tank. Mission boat Scenery and Sights 99 jars. She has a dirty white cotton cloth around herbody and over her head. At the sight of you she turnsher head and pulls her cloth over her face, so as almostto hide it, and hesitates and wonders whether shewould better go back into the house or proceed on hererrand. You walk on with no intention of molestingher, and she proceeds to the village tank. Do not sup-pose this tank is some nice piece of stonework, andthat a cool stream of living water is constantly pouringinto it. It is simply a great hole d
India and daily life in Bengal . A typical Bengal tank. Mission boat Scenery and Sights 99 jars. She has a dirty white cotton cloth around herbody and over her head. At the sight of you she turnsher head and pulls her cloth over her face, so as almostto hide it, and hesitates and wonders whether shewould better go back into the house or proceed on hererrand. You walk on with no intention of molestingher, and she proceeds to the village tank. Do not sup-pose this tank is some nice piece of stonework, andthat a cool stream of living water is constantly pouringinto it. It is simply a great hole dug in the groundby some rich gentleman, perhaps five hundred yearsago. It is replenished from year to year by the heavyrains of summer. Every village must have its tank,for there are few wells in this part of India, and water,and much of it, is a necessity. Let us follow the woman, but at such a distance asnot to attract her attention. She has with her two,and possibly three, earthen water-jars. They areshaped at the bottom like the larger end of an t
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