Our boys in India . THE LONG ROAD. the end of our journey to-morrow night. Now we must reachit to-morrow morning instead, for there are two villages thatwe must go past before daylight. So they started on; and all night long the muni kept at asteady, rapid pace, never flinching or swerving from the trackthat he seemed to be as sure of as though it were his the sun had risen, they passed the last of the villages \ WILD LIFE ON THE RIVER. 57 that Dhondaram wanted to avoid. But the people werealready engaged at the morning worship, and were lying ontheir faces, falling on their knees,
Our boys in India . THE LONG ROAD. the end of our journey to-morrow night. Now we must reachit to-morrow morning instead, for there are two villages thatwe must go past before daylight. So they started on; and all night long the muni kept at asteady, rapid pace, never flinching or swerving from the trackthat he seemed to be as sure of as though it were his the sun had risen, they passed the last of the villages \ WILD LIFE ON THE RIVER. 57 that Dhondaram wanted to avoid. But the people werealready engaged at the morning worship, and were lying ontheir faces, falling on their knees, beating their foreheadsto the ground, and crying and howling before a rude littletemple, where Paul could just discern a hideous image, that. THE GODDESS KALI. reminded him so much of the old witch, that instinctively hetried to shrink away from it. What is it? he asked timidly. The goddess Kali, the wife of the great Siva, — thepowerful Mother of Destruction. She kills every thing. How do they dare to be so near, and pray to her? askedPaul again. They are praying to her to keep away from them, replied 58 OUR BOYS IN INDIA. the muni, smiling in a peculiar way, as he pressed a littlenearer to the jungle to escape observation. Her hair touchesthe ground behind her. She has three red eyes. Her lipsand tongue are dripping with blood. She has dead bodies forrings in her ears. Once she had only two arms ; but, when herhusband was in trouble, she sacrificed an arm to save him, andnow she has four. She is standing on the body of a god, andhas the head of a mortal in her hand. Her girdle is made ofthe hands she has cut off from the arms of her enemies, andher necklace is skulls. I would not pray to her, said Paul with a shiver. Yo
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