Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . te. Thank God for the courageous and heroicspirits of India. May their number multiply. , MM: ????*? -vii^^^f^r CHAPTER XVII. FAMOUS CITIES OF SOUTHERN INDIA. Fascinating Land — Gorgeous Heathenism — Tattoo Marks and SacredAshes —A Man of the Thief Caste —A Robber Village — Calling theRoll of Thieves — The Thief Middleman — The Women at the Well —The Greasy Fakir — Paying Him for Drifting to Leeward — Blood-curdling Announcements —A magnificent Temple —Twenty-five Mill-ions of Dollars — Dust
Our journey around the world; an illustrated record of a year's travel of forty thousand . te. Thank God for the courageous and heroicspirits of India. May their number multiply. , MM: ????*? -vii^^^f^r CHAPTER XVII. FAMOUS CITIES OF SOUTHERN INDIA. Fascinating Land — Gorgeous Heathenism — Tattoo Marks and SacredAshes —A Man of the Thief Caste —A Robber Village — Calling theRoll of Thieves — The Thief Middleman — The Women at the Well —The Greasy Fakir — Paying Him for Drifting to Leeward — Blood-curdling Announcements —A magnificent Temple —Twenty-five Mill-ions of Dollars — Dusty Gods and Goddesses — The Holy of Holies — AStone Bull in a Stone Bath Tub — The Gods Bath — A Beautiful Pal-ace— The Temple of Tanjore —Filthy Water as a Purifier of Sins —The Last Rajah and His Wives — A Wedding Procession —The Kick-ing Capacities of an Old Smooth-Bore — Vellore and its Temple — Sus-pense and Terror — A Brave Rescue — The Gallant Horses — Tippoo>Sahibs Relatives — The Madras Hunt — The Punkah IVE1ST the most vigorous travelerwould find it difficult to exploreevery interesting city of this mar-velously fascinating land of must be content to take myreaders to a few of the placeswhich have most interested always are they the showplaces of India, or those overwhich the traveler always goesinto raptures; these places youwill find described in scores ofbooks of travel, and I may well leave them to those who aremost impressed by their wonders and beauties, while I de-scribe those which have most strongly appealed to me. The city of Madura, to my mind, is one of the most inter- (311) 312 THE SIGN UPON THE FOREHEAD. esting cities in all India. Here we find the people in all thegorgeousness of their native costumes, splendidly bejeweled,and bedecked, and becrimsoned with the gay cloths whichthey wear in most picturesque fashion. Here, too, the deg-radation of heathen worship is seen a
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