Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . K^k Circular Ziai;ai wiiii Sione, Marblp: and Horn i^tt*^ /1 \ 1 \ I ?/. I III -!!? iV\ r\i. > I iM-, \ K^,-KI, XXXVII A FAMOUS ZIARAT 399 whips, ends of broken bottles, bits of rope, fragments of civihzation hardly added toits picturesqueness. The tomb lay from northto south—a very curious fact, for, as a rule, thehead of the tomb in other Ziarats w^as to thewest. The tomb, however, lay in the westernportion of the Ziarat circle. The enclosingwall was adorned with horns of sacrificed
Across coveted lands : or, A journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta, overland . K^k Circular Ziai;ai wiiii Sione, Marblp: and Horn i^tt*^ /1 \ 1 \ I ?/. I III -!!? iV\ r\i. > I iM-, \ K^,-KI, XXXVII A FAMOUS ZIARAT 399 whips, ends of broken bottles, bits of rope, fragments of civihzation hardly added toits picturesqueness. The tomb lay from northto south—a very curious fact, for, as a rule, thehead of the tomb in other Ziarats w^as to thewest. The tomb, however, lay in the westernportion of the Ziarat circle. The enclosingwall was adorned with horns of sacrificed goats,and, in fact, outside to the south was thesacrificial spot with some large slabs of stonesmeared with blood, and the usual uprightsticks, but no rags appended to them. It had,nevertheless, some decoration of horns. A second Ziarat was to be found on the topof the hill—generally these Ziarats go in couples,the principal one on the summit of a hill, theother at the foot, the latter for the convenienceof travellers who have not the time or theenergy to climb to the higher sacred spot,—andthis Ziarat was 45 feet long also with a
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