. Hindoo life. With pictures of the men, women, and children of India . THE BOA CONSTRICTOR AND STAG. —^ Hindoo Life. PICTURES lEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN OF INDIA. By REY. EDWAED WEBB, LATE OF MADURA, SOUTH INDIA. PHILADELPHIA:PEESBYTEEIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 1334 CHESTNUT YORK : A. D. F. RANDOLPH, 770 BROADWAY. I<^t^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by WM. L. HILDEBURN, Treasurer, in trust for the PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, In the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Westoott & Thomson,Stereotypers, PHILAD
. Hindoo life. With pictures of the men, women, and children of India . THE BOA CONSTRICTOR AND STAG. —^ Hindoo Life. PICTURES lEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN OF INDIA. By REY. EDWAED WEBB, LATE OF MADURA, SOUTH INDIA. PHILADELPHIA:PEESBYTEEIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, 1334 CHESTNUT YORK : A. D. F. RANDOLPH, 770 BROADWAY. I<^t^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by WM. L. HILDEBURN, Treasurer, in trust for the PRESBYTERIAN PUBLICATION COMMITTEE, In the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Westoott & Thomson,Stereotypers, PHILADELPHIA. CONTENTS. PAGE HINDOO LIFE 7 A HINDOO WOMAN 12 COOKING AND EATING 21 CLOTHING AND JEWELRY 26 JUGGLERS AND SNAKE CHARMERS 35 AN IDOL 38 WORSHIPING AN IDOL 47 MAKING IDOLS 50 A BRAHMIN PRIEST 59 Hindoo NDIA is the name of a very large andbeautiful country on the other side ofthe globe. The people that live in thatcountry are called Hindoos. If you should get so much interestedin them by reading this little book, andby looking at the pictures, that you should want to goand see them, you would have to sail across the ocean ina ship. It is so far that it would take you more than ahundred days and nights to get there, going all the you would have to cross over the north Atlantic HINDOO LIFE. ocean down to the equator. Sailors call that the stopping there or seeing any land you would sailon farther south, farther and farther, until you got aroundthe cape of Good Hope. Next you would turn up northward into the Indianocean. After a few days you would come to the beautifulisland of Ceylon. There, cinnamon, nutmegs and otherspices grow, and fill the air with a sweet fragrance. Thesweet odor of these spices is carried out by the winds farover the sea. Yery soon after p
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