Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-08-26
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"CARLEr0N,sT LETTER To BOYS AND
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8 THE MONKEY TT MPLR OF BENAEgs.
ifti TnE GOLDEN rAdoDA.la--
-If. FBksAREs, fNpiA, May 18th, 1868
want to tel! the bows and eirtv of the
United States something about this city
and what they might see if they We're
here, 1t is one of theoldrst ard most
wonderful cities in cthe world, ard there
are things here which can be seen nowhere
else under the sun. We thiuk that Rome
was founded long, long time ago. and
so it was, but Benures was great city
before R0mulus was heard ota When we
read about Greece we 60 back into far dis.
tant years and stand upon tho threshold
OF history, but Benares had its temples
and shlines, its market places and public
buildings centuries before the Parthenou
of Athens was built When David was
boy watching his fathers hjcks in the
pastures around Bethlehem in Juiea, be
fore Jerusalem beca me the City of the
Lord, Benares was sacred place. Long
before Solomon laid the foundations Of
the temple in Jerusalem wOrshippers flock
ed to the temples Of this city. .l--
! Romans. Greeks, Jews, with their relig-
ious, all have disappeared as nations, bu;
the liindoo people and the Hiuioo relis-
ion remain. aud am confident that you
would open your eyes WIDE # you were
, to ride through the streets of this town
visit the temples, and behold to day just
such scenes as we're witnessed here 600
years ago. a.... ...
THE CITY,
The city stands on the east bank Of
the Ganges The river makes bend at
this poiot, curviug toward the west Out.
side of the town the streets are wide aud
straight, and there are open spaces, parks,
lawns. beautiful shade trees-palms and
cocoanuts-seuding up their tall, slender
trunks, with wide, feathcry leaves at the
Top. There are thickets of bamboo. from
which you might cut the incest of fish.
poles there are great banyan trees. the
limbs sending down shoots to the ground,
which in time will take root and become
new trunks
You sec new and strange birds the
largest is called Mr.. Adjntaut-not that
he has anything to DO with The military,
nut perhaps it is because be stands by
lhe hour as still as an adjutAnt on parade.
These birds have long, slender legs, not
much larger thau pipe stems. They arc
three or fourfeet tall. You see them stand
ing on the tops of the houses, or in the
Geld, not in the least ahaid Of people, foI
10 one harms them They have way Of
looking very wise--of turning their eyes
towmd the ground, and looking as sober
ly as judge--as II they had some i'm.
portsnt matter under consideration. Be-
sides these there are kites. and crows by
the thousand. who are great thieves, par.
rots with green pumage and a bird
which cries." 1t is conf 9 1t /, com.
ing'
The city is stretched along the river
about five miles, and is about two miles
wide the streets are most of them Dar.
row, not wide enough to ride through in
carriage. 1t is a delightful ride down
4 to the old town, and while we are driving
thitber, rclling along the wide avenues,
beneath the grand old shade trees, We
shall have time to think over little OIL
the history of India, to see where the
Hindoos came from aud what they have
done in the world.
THE HINDoos.
The early history of this country is oil
in the dark. but about 1900 years B. g,
,--abou. the time the chlioren Of lsrael
went out of Egypt towards the North--a
great body of people from the country
about the Caspian sea. came south. drov,
the tribes then living here to the noun
taius. and took possession Of the country
These people settled Grst along the rive'
Indus They had horses, camels and OK
eo, aud had so great desire to increase
their herds that they made war for thai
purpose. Is it not curious that one o
the words in their language which stands
for war means "dcsire TO obtain cows 2
These men spoke the Sanscrit Language
Having once got foothold in the coun
try they pushed their way south alcnI
the Ganges, fighting many battle. Whti
they came into the country they had ii
countenauces and light hair, but undo
the burning sun of the South the com
plexion changed, and features also. Ill
they finally lost nearly all their origina
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