The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-02-02
Sensations Of Starving.

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For the first two days through which
strong and healthy man is doomed to
exist upon nothing his sufferings are per-
haps more acute than in the remaining
stages-he feels an inordinate, unspeak-
able craving ut the stomach night and
day The mind runs upon beef, bread
and other substantials, but still in great
measure the body retains its strength.
On the third and fourth days, but es
pecially on the fourth, this incessant
craving gives place to sinking and weak
ness of the stomach, accompanied by
nausea. The unfortunate sufferer still
desires food, but with loss of strength
he loses that eager craving which is felt
in the earlier stages. Should he chance
to obtain morsel or two of food, he
swallows it with wolfish avidity; but
five minutes afterwards his sufferings
are more intense than ever. He feels as
if he had swallowed living lobster,
which is clawing and feeding upon the
very foundation of his existence. On
the fifth day his cheeks suddenly appear
hollow and sunken, his body attenuated,
his color is ashy pale, and his eyes wild,
CLASSY and cannibalish. The different
parts of the system now war with each
other. The stomach calls upon the legs
to go with it in quest of food the legs,
from weakness, refuse. The sixth day
brings with it increased suffering, al
though the pangs OF hunger are lost in
an overpowering languor and sickness.
The head becomes giddy-the ghosts of
we'll remembered dinners pass in hide
/ Gus professions through the mind. The
seventh day comes, bringing increasing
lassitude and further prostration of
strength. The arms hang lifelessly, the
legs drag heavily. The desire for food
is still left, to degree, but it must be
brought, not sought. The miserable
remnant of life which still hangs to the
sufferer is burden almost too grievous
to be borne !; yet his inherent love of ex-
istence induces a desire still to preserve
| it, if it can be saved without task upon
bodily exertion. The mind wanders.
At one moment he thinks his weary
limbs cannot sustain him a mile the
next, he is endowed with unnatural
strength, and if there be certainty OF
relief before him, he dashes bravely and
strongly forward, wondering whence
proceeds his new and sudden impulse.
A FAMOUS MoUNTAIN.-Within few
miles of the city of Junagha (more prop
erly Junagarh) there rises one of the
most famous mountains in the world,
though many of my readers may never
have heard of it before. 1t is Girnar, or
the Lord of the Mountains, also called
the Sin-destroying Mount, the Mount of
Safety, the Golden Mount, the Oversha-
downing Mount, and by many other SIM
liar names. High up on its peak, above
stupendous precipice, and at height
of nearly three thousand feet, there is a
series of magnificent and beautiful tenn
Piles, sacred to the religion of the jams
"a corrupt form of Budhaism-and one
OF which contains the famous Perspiring
Statue. On the summit of that peak
there is a temple containing most an
cient and sacred Hindu image, or rather
stone, the Amba Mata, or Mother of
Gods. The peaks beyond have sacred
shrines, to which hundreds of thousands
of pilgrims yearly ascend. Hundreds of
naked devotees, besmeared with paint or
ashes, are scattered over the mountain,
exposing themselves TO almost incredible
hardships. Its last peak, the Dread
Mother, Stunned by pilgrims, is sacred
to Kali or Durga, the blood-stained
spouse of silva the Destroyer, and that
peak, with the jungle at its base, is in
tested by the worst of all devotees-
Aghoras, who live on carton and human
flesh, and shun the face of mankind
Blachacood's Magazine.
A LITTLE ONES LovE.-The Pough-
keepsie Eagle tells an affecting little
story of child between two and three
years old whom lady found walking
on the street, evidently lost and crying
bitterly. Taking her by the baud the
hand the lady asked her where she was
going.
II am going to find papa" was the
reply of the child, between sobs.
"What is your papa's name ?" asked
the lady.
Ellis name is papa" replied the inno-