. Reminiscences; the story of an emigrant. FAKIR WITH IRON CAGE. and dancing, some Brahmins were exhibiting a sacred bull,others sacred monkeys, and liberal offerings were madeeverywhere by the enraptured pilgrims. Such are the relig-ious ceremonies in the sacred city of my stay in Benares I visited one of the most re Story of an Emigrant. 209 markable ruins in the world, situated six miles from the sa-cred citv It is the remnants of two large and tall towersbuilt of brick and cut stone, about three thousand yearsago. These towers were closely connected with the historyof Buddha,
. Reminiscences; the story of an emigrant. FAKIR WITH IRON CAGE. and dancing, some Brahmins were exhibiting a sacred bull,others sacred monkeys, and liberal offerings were madeeverywhere by the enraptured pilgrims. Such are the relig-ious ceremonies in the sacred city of my stay in Benares I visited one of the most re Story of an Emigrant. 209 markable ruins in the world, situated six miles from the sa-cred citv It is the remnants of two large and tall towersbuilt of brick and cut stone, about three thousand yearsago. These towers were closely connected with the historyof Buddha, one of them, according to tradition, being hisdwelling and the other his place of worship. This wasformerly the site of a great city, called TOWER OF SARNATH. 14 CHAPTER XXI. Nimtoolaghat—Cremation in India—Parsee Funeral Rites. India is the only country in the world where the civilizationof the East and that of the West are found side by side withequal rights and equal chances of a free and full develop-ment. For, although the English have conquered, andat present rule the country, they have respected the peculiarcustoms and manners of the Hindoos, and guaranteed themliberty to practice the same and to develop their social andrehgious institutions in so far as they do not conflict withthe generally acknoweldged principles of humanity. Accordingly in Calcutta and other cities in India we fre-quently find a stately Christian church side by side with aHindoo temple with its officiating priests. On one sideof the street we may see a fine European residence filled withguests around the dinner-table, eating, chatting, and toast-ing just as at home, and on the other a Hindoo villa, whereturbaned Brahmins, in a squatting post
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