Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-26


Hundreds Of monkeys grin at us from
the top of the wal Ind gnash their teeth
as if to frighten us. as we approach the
gate One of them makes spring, opens
his ! .ws vide as if he would swallow us
at mouthful but single flourish ofsan
umbrella sends them all scampering to o
safe distance. BY the gateway are some
old devotees, with their faces and bodies
paintcd-red streaks on their forehead -
yellow stripes over the breast and on the
arms---;ber only clothing yard or two
of clsth around the body They have co
coanut sllellssin their hands, iuto which
they expect you to drop money, or rice,
or some hing good to eat they are poor,
half starved wretches, but esteem them
selves to be very holy and pure.
We step inside the gate and fud that
we are in yard about so feet square -
containing a pasoda in the centre. We
can look into the open door and see a
h deous idol before which lamp is
burning Two or three worshippers are
there offering flowers and sprink;ing wat
err One of them comes out, strikes bell,
then begins to walk round the pagoda.
Others come out and do the same. There
they 60 round, round, round; tramp,
tramp, and that is worship
Meanwhile the monkeys are having a
gay time, running all over the pagoda,
eoping from the wall to the ground, from
the ground to the wall, climbing into a
tree, chasing one another into the pagoda,
old monkeys carving their little ones,
and all having fine frolic.
PILGRIMS.
Once more in our carriage we ride along
the holy way the road over which
pilgrims travel. Benares is very holy
city $50 holy that the Brahmins say that
if an Englishmsn or American dies here,
though disbelievers in the Hindoo relig-
ion, they will be saved. ...,,
In Hindoo literature Benares is always
spoken of as place of holiness and heav-
enly beauty. Hindoos far away. hearing
of its glory and its holiness, long to visit
it and be purified from all sin 50 pill
Gins come here from every part of the
country to walk along this (" holy way
to worship in the temples, and wash of
all tant Of sin in the Ganges. For more
than $500 years rilglims have focked
thither. .......-.,
, THE GANGEs.
A short ride brings US the river above
the city. AS we stand there upon the
band we have the river. the scenes along
ts bank and the city itself in full view
fhe river makes long sweep, curvise
onward the west Along the bank at ouI
feet are the boats-canoes dug from the
trunks of large trees, row boats, and
,ailboats-boats with long, pointed prow'
and great, wide, high sterns, with a helm
} as large as the door of big barn in thu
, country--with a slender mast, bamboo
f yards and queer sails--the whole 50 fun
T ny that if tho little dog who laughed "t(
see such craft" as the COW Jumping ovel
; he moon, as Mother Goose tells US, b'
would split his mouth open at the sigh
! Of this craft on the Gaugcs. i.
We look down the river aud sce wba
once were stately places, rising from tb'
banks There arc flights of stone steps
called gdatS by the Hindoos, ever so many
: pagodas, the turrets overl4id with pur'
gol thousands aare bathing IN the stream
washing their bodies, their clothes, theil
brass and copper pots and pans. Mothers
! are sousing their babies in the stream
, scrubbipg them with the holy mud ther'
: is kicking, screaming, splashing, sputter
NJ. Old men are securing out thei
mouths with the sacred mud. rubbip,
their hands thougA their hair, rimminI
e out their ears. diving aud rubbing again
II there is any efficacy in the holy waite
and equally holy mud. they are bound t
: rub and scrub till wholly clcansed fror
sin. They are earnest seekers after sal
v.tion in this way. c,7e fss,..w f..
SACRED BULLS, HIS ft0e
The bull is o sacred animal, for the
believe that one of the gods issued from
. bull There are ever SO many bulls in th
city who go where the,e please. poke thei
noses into the maketmen's basket. hel
g themselves to what they like, and sthoup
the Hindoos sometimes rap them sound.
8 no one would dare kill sacred bull "
t Sc them on the bank ofthe riyer---chev
G ing their cuds or lying asleep on the stor
q cps. They go up and down the SCI
e Just as easily as the dogs or the men an