India revisited . ttle dogs move-ment, snapped his fingers under the seat, calling theanimal. Nothing answering, he looked, and, to hishorror, saw two cobras there dallying with his suspendedpalm. All the same, one may sometimes pass half ayear without ever seeing a snake; but how really awfulis the power of their fangs may be judged from the factthat between 1875 and 1880, 103,000 persons diedfrom snake-bite in British India, and 1,073,546poisonous reptiles were kUled for the Government re-ward. It is a curious fact that you may boil snake-poison without diminishing its venomous properties,wh
India revisited . ttle dogs move-ment, snapped his fingers under the seat, calling theanimal. Nothing answering, he looked, and, to hishorror, saw two cobras there dallying with his suspendedpalm. All the same, one may sometimes pass half ayear without ever seeing a snake; but how really awfulis the power of their fangs may be judged from the factthat between 1875 and 1880, 103,000 persons diedfrom snake-bite in British India, and 1,073,546poisonous reptiles were kUled for the Government re-ward. It is a curious fact that you may boil snake-poison without diminishing its venomous properties,which seems to prove that there are no germs in of potash, however, renders it quite Hill, with the renowned temple on its sum-mit, overlooks the Diamond G-arden. A long andwinding flight of spacious stairs leads up to the shrine,so gradual that mounted elephants can quite easilycarry visitors or pilgrims to the platform of the , the Mountair> Goddess, the Mater Montana. THE GHAUTS AND POONA. 77 of Eome, was Sivas consort, and is worshippedeverywhere in India under forms now terrible, nowlovely and benign. Among the latter is her personifi-^cation as Annapurna, the food-giver of the house-hold, which sounds strangely like the Anna Perenna ofthe Eomans, also adored as the Dispenser of , the great festival of Parvati occurs in Chaitra,just as that of the Latin goddess in the Ides of has taught the West more than people dream!Parvati was also the presiding Deity of Sati sacri-fices. Half-way up the ascent to the holy hill is seena stone memorial of a Sati, with the usual hand, arm,and foot marks engraved which show that a Hinduwidow here immolated herself. The bright-eyed Brah-man lad who conducts us points to the spot with pride,and is astonished to learn, when he speaks half regret-fully of the abolition of this antique rite of self-sacri-fice, that it was never in any way common in India, theinstances of De
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