India and daily life in Bengal . Procuresses near Kalis temple, Calcutta. Devotees bathing in the Ganges, Calcutta Scenery and Sights 95 suggest, and within fifty feet the watchman at the gate,cooking, eating, and sleeping in a room eight feetsquare. Here are most magnificent European stores,and but a few feet away a native sitting in a little roomdealing out his wares. Here are the Eden gardens,with electric lights, fountains, and exquisite music fur-nished by the viceroys band, and not far distant thevender of native sweets in his shanty, sitting over hispot of boiling oil making his candies
India and daily life in Bengal . Procuresses near Kalis temple, Calcutta. Devotees bathing in the Ganges, Calcutta Scenery and Sights 95 suggest, and within fifty feet the watchman at the gate,cooking, eating, and sleeping in a room eight feetsquare. Here are most magnificent European stores,and but a few feet away a native sitting in a little roomdealing out his wares. Here are the Eden gardens,with electric lights, fountains, and exquisite music fur-nished by the viceroys band, and not far distant thevender of native sweets in his shanty, sitting over hispot of boiling oil making his candies. Here is a Frenchtheater and almost across the street is Chandnee ba-zaar, with its hundreds of tile-roofed one-story shops,and labyrinth of streets not more than four feet narrow Bentick Street, with its numerous Chi-nese shops and the rattle and din of native life, youcome out on the great beautiful Maidan. This latter isan open park, consisting of many hundreds of acres ofland, lying between Chowringee Street and the was once covered with native
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