Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-10
FROM INDIA.
Physiological Features OF that Far
OF Land, aai T5jIyht> in Rsla-
tion Ia the Religion OF Its
Penaic.
SPECIAL c3rsssp,ai;aes Of u, Ds>EEzr

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rds pay sic i s.l-rIPiy OF lniit
is cs-tliniY not A. o5li as that Of the
Rocky MbInsIias, II W excep. the
five mile high p.lis Of the Him.
lays which I have MT se,n). Sin.
! II we baholI the expause OF the
sacrei Gang es, - whose yellow
waves the Gell were eoGsignei no.
many years ago, We sipr, awe st.uc,s,
wondering IL river can bs found
greater In size. 4 blsill in this
SACRED river i as great n desldera-
tum 10 the iIolators of India "a a
burial 10; near the y AS ot Jcsusa-
lem is to the piOus Jew.
The Indian Feniusuia Is not unlike
South America with regards To-
water, mountains, table lands AMI
relative attitudes, II We measure that
continent from the equator south
I wards; ever bearing in mind that
India Is several times smaller in
every proportion.
In SOUTH Am.ricl a ulrrow
sttlp OF land beginning at the Pacific
ocea'', rises abruptly as We ascent
eastwarIs to the Andes, and at every
grGiafion OF altitude the vegetation
becomes more ant more like that Of
temperate climes. So Il T. in i.-sving
Bombay. climbing eastSAris &C. tne
Ghauts. Tnis ascent l. 80 -iss > that
the train has % rCverse completely
or ~ in the heart Of the noun
taibs. | viii give ha.ty descrip-
ton, and revert 70 my suffice
Within the 5 or ~ miles which pre-
celei thi. Y switch We rushed
In and out o. - or % Luu.
nels. How grand The san wcs
all abiaEe. the atmosphere SEEMED
shiny AMI Clustering. Like writh-
ing snake n eel the long train
pitched right ami !efl in a swinging
motion, winding here sni there
around e-carQed cluiis; seeming NJ
times almost to leap over deep, ugiy
chasms ani prPcirices where I scn-e
% cascades seemed with helilon-
fury 10 pursue each other over alsse
covered rocks, scattering spray aud
raiubows all over, while rushing to-
gether 10 form larger waterfall. De-
4 low. In this prJfuSion or sunlight
Il was painful for the eye 10 b1hJId
I tsie sparkling silver threads Of
water, the suCw-wh.le clouds OF
pray aud the Gorgeous red an vel
low flowers which here and there.
Ike gems, shOne through the bri!
liant hands OF many raihbGws. With
a loud snort and many echoes the
T, engine pleRge- iuL0 back FaggcI.
shaEgy hole. iNc soon follow aud
Z notice taat instead Of a fantastic
Z cave, K Is . regular, well built tun-
7 rel the moth OF which, however.
y 10 overhung with great ferns.
: pendulous air plants, moses and
hanging grasses, that Il looks
like a breach in the bowels
Of the earth, q cavern ;or
tigers The tTsin rumbles loudly In
this great mountain, and though the
minutes are few, the time seems
long. Now AMI again the smoke in
the tunnel seems agioS like the
T cloudy panache above Nesuvius' or
( EtnR's crater at night time.
A dim light appear, and again !
we see a dark, Irregular outline as II
looking from the Inside Of n grotto !
outwards, but, very strange to say.
tue entrance reelis barred with [
crystals and sheets o. glass, which {
seem to turn spiraily and vibra,e. I
We are in the midst Of the rainy I
/ season. As we passed through the /
tunnel n cloud burst on the RI &c.
( We were deluge1 10y torrents % /.
I water. IL II like diving through n 1
I water fall. Vibrating sheets OF /
! gater bar tine entrances. while thu. 4
terms. long gr.ts-es and moses en-
tgins 20 let down i,iilars 81 water. /
and even each one OF the thick,
: broad leaves OF the plsutain, tauauS q
aud other gigantic eBd0gens spsui uie ]
I tiuid lise 80 many caves Of a great 4
cithedrai. Verify the windows Oi |
heaven seeIri open. No wonder .hr I
soil Of India i 70 shallow, and the I
rocks crop Out all over. As the 1
ian nJw T., II these rains ceass,l /
deeaie, India would be a more bar I
rem aud fiery desert than that Of 4
Byb.a OF Arabia. Thus we 20 /
through 4 score Of tunnels, amid 1
rain aud stins, aanis minutes o. /
blasting sun and it rains again, and
10 on. Below Us are terraced rice
fields, saI broai pools in which
languidiy fioat black, shiny, hairless
watsr-builocks. hardly - De distin-
guisiied fn,m The dark, wet b0uideTs
around them In the water.
Islam says God sen. 10000 pro-
phsis 10 m-n on earth. Mortal man
disTegaried them all. Even Noah.
Abraham, Ishmlei, Noses and
Chris. the greatest bot one 90 were
mOcsed. As none Of these could
establish peace in the hAbitaiions
Of wickedness, Mohammel, the last
AMI greatest prophet was seat with
the sword. This statement may
surprise some, but what Of 3, 900. 600
Hindu gods Is not that more
puzzlingG do not suppose the
reader admits the statement as ex-
pressing the truth. l don't think
il correct, at any rate. Yet the
East India school text books saw
That the Indian Gods amount 10
''S3 crones." "a crore squalls 100
0J0.l AZ Is true that those text
books are published by society
for tue propagation Of Christian
ity." That makes the Statement.
suspicious Much as We respect
Gsniils "Chrissians," We have ali
ndiced hOw some reverend people
villify the heathens Many hesth- .
ems ART black. but why make them
blacker? IL | had to estimate the Z
Of the existence at anv Z
time OF $500, 90 gods ia India. and :
hsd TO estimate Il by the truthful
NESS OF statements now male In
India by "re-erends'' concerning