Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1882-03-22
FROM INDIA.

The following letter from Miss EN-
ma d. Anderson, now a Missionary in
India, to q young friend in the lower
part of this county, has been handed
US for publication.
GUYRANwALA, North India,
November go, 1882. J
My Dear Friend: Although fal
away in India l have not forgotten my
friends in America but often think of
loved ones o'er the sea. To fulfill the
promise / made the evening called,
have concluded to spend part of this
evening in writing to you, knowing
that you are interested in my welfare
and would like to know something
about my trip.
Well, / was very sick on the At
lantic. I should have commenced a
little farther back. I left home the
next day after the meeting, spent a
very pleasant week in Philadelphia
with our Board, visited the principal
places of interest. Sailed in the ship
Lord Cough ;" we had it very rough
for eight days, and l would not of car
ed much what became of me the most
of the time, but enjoyed it very much
after got over my sickness. Had a
view of "Old Ireland" and the beau
tiful green fields of Wales. We were
just in Liverpool one day and then
sailed for Alexandria. On the way we
called at Gibralter, which. is an island
OF rock three miles long and fourteen
hundred feet high; we spent several
hours there, climbing the rock and
viewing the city below it was grand,
on one side was the Atlantic on the
other the Mediterranean, while the bay
at our feet was filled with ships from
all lands. We also called at Algiers
and Malta at Algiers we visited the
gardens, which were beautiful. At
Malta we passed quite near the place
where Paul was shipwrecked, (record-
ed in Acts 27.) This is the island
that is mentioned in that chapter. We
had it very calm and pleasant on this
part of our voyage and enjoyed it very
much as we were so well, and our Cap
tain was very kind to us. We landed
in Alexandria just four weeks from the
day we left America. We were met
by Mr.. Ewing, of our Mission, who
helped US to pass through the Custom
House. We were in the Mission build
ing, but the Missionaries were all at
Kancla, FIVE miles out; this is where
they spend the hot season, we took the
train and went out to see them, took
dinner and started for Cairo. The cars
are not so fine as in America, but | be-
lieYe they are as fast. Our Cairo
friends were glad to see US, and to
have Miss Thompson with them once
more, she belongs to Cairo station.
We spent two days in Cairo visiting
the schools and all the places of inter-
est, l was in the museum and saw
quite number of mummies and other
ancient curiosities Spenta day at the
Pyramids and then took the train for
Suez distance of two hundred and
fifty miles; the first part of the road
was in the the valley of the Nile you
know the land is watered by
the overlooking of that river, and we
were just in time to see the land in all
it's beauty, for miles and miles as far as
we could see was one vast green plain.
There are no fences in Egypt, the
crops are watched by the natives.
We also passed through some beauti-
full groves Of the palm trees loaded
with dates. The last part of our
journey was through sandy desert,
which in Bible times was call
ed the land of Goshan, you remem-
Der that is the part of Egypt that
Joseph's friends occupied. 1t is now
covered with sand. We spent week
at Suez waiting on our ship; spent
part Of the time gathering up shells
from the sea shore. We had it very
warm on the Red sea and Indian ocean;
just made one stop,,which was at Ceylon
island, or Colombo city. This is where
we get most of our spices, coffee and
tea. We visited the museum and had
q drive to the cinnamon gardens; saw
it growing and got some branches to
bring back to the ship. We landed in
Calcutta, spent three days in this city
and then started up country. Our
mission field is in the Punjab or North
India, about fifteen hundred miles from
Calcutta we went by railroad. We
had through tickets, but could stop off
if we wished We visited the city Of
Banares, this is the sacred city of the
Hindus and one wholly given to idola-
try. There are over thousand
temples or shrines of worship, and over
half million of idols are worshiped.
saw them at their worship. Visited
quite a number of temples, among
them was the one in which the sacred
oxen and cows are kept; saw those
poor ignorant people bowling down to
those dumb animals and placing gar
lands of flowers on their necks, and
at their feet Was in the monkey
temple, saw over one thousand mon
keys of all sizes jumping and climbing
around. 1t made me very sad to
think that they worshiped those dumb
animals. Banares is situated on the
Ganges, or the sacred river. In the
morning we went to see them worship
ing and washing in this river, also the
burning Chat or place where the dead