. William H. Seward's travels around the world. strange that the na-tive rulers of India, after disasters which have deprived them oftheir independence and universally impoverished if not ruined them,continue to dress in costumes which no Western state of wealth 384: BRITISH INDIA. can command ? The merchant in the East, everywhere, is amiableand polite. The vendor of kincob received ns, who merely cameto look at his wares, with bouquets and garlands when we came, andshowered us with rose-water when we departed. Superstition counts the population of Benares by the million,and its sacred edific
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. strange that the na-tive rulers of India, after disasters which have deprived them oftheir independence and universally impoverished if not ruined them,continue to dress in costumes which no Western state of wealth 384: BRITISH INDIA. can command ? The merchant in the East, everywhere, is amiableand polite. The vendor of kincob received ns, who merely cameto look at his wares, with bouquets and garlands when we came, andshowered us with rose-water when we departed. Superstition counts the population of Benares by the million,and its sacred edifices by the thousand. The real population is onehundred and fifty thousand, and it contains between three and fourhundred temples. So much of the history of Benares as we havenot related was sublimely spoken by Burke in his account of thecruelty of Warren Hastings to the Maharajah Cheyte Sing, ances-tor of our host. What we have left unsaid of the incomparablemagnificence of the city is told by Macaulay in his essay on War-ren Hastings. *k tilvm. TEMPLES AT BENARES.
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