The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-17

blocked up by the most cosmopolitan living
mass that can be conceived-women in
robes of scarlet, blue and gold, Persians
in high, shaggy hats, Parsees in cherry
colored silk trousers, tall soldiers, Raiputs,
Cinnamon, staggering Musselmans in tur-
bans Of green sleek Marwarees with tight
fitting parti-coIored turbans of red and yell
low.
THIS TIDE CT HUMAN LIFE
rolls down the center of the street IN
ruffled by the conveyances which are
ploughing their way through it. There are
draft horses with cork hoods to shelter
sthem from the fierce sun, and high stepping
Arab horses worth their weight in-well,
worth their weight ia silver. With much
trouble the traveller works his way past
the small, quaint shops where
in are displayed all the wares of
the east. Behind his sweetmests
sits the fat, greasy half naked
confectioner; and as the Hindoo will only
brazen art is good one. There are small
novels in squalor haunted region where
lean old men, acid eaten and ghostly, are
manufacturing the most delicate traceries
IN silver work, and their implements con-
sist of blowpipe, an anvil, hammer and
pair of pincers.
Going along the Queens road one morn
ing came to q blank wall from above
which came long volumes of noisome smoke
drifting over the road and many bright
sparks rising in the air. II was
THE aINDoo CREMATING GROUND,
and the smoke and sparks were thrown
of from the burning corpses Beyond the
crematory long two-storied building has
been erected by charitable Mohammedan
gentleman to accommodate pilgrims TO
Mpppas T hn rio IN
Malabar Hill Passing through narrow
streets lined with tall houses, tie traveller
| comes to q sacred POOL situated in the cen
ire OF vast square entirely surrounded
by temples; large flights of steps led down
to the waters edge where an imm ense
throng of Hindoos, male and female, in
bright colored attire pressed round the
brink of the silent pool. Some plunge
in, others sprinkle themselves with the
sacred water, others kneel on the steps
while all are praying with the utmost
favor. Passing along the crest OF Malabal
Hill there is seen one of the most lovely
4 views in the wide world. In the far dis
tance are the picturesque hills OF Mahratti
land, bathed in Q blue and purple haze frcn
the mountains to the distant sea ant
islands, covered with luXuriant vegetation
stand the great inlet known as Bomba.
harbor. A short distance beyond stand
Il THE CELEBRATED TOWERS OF SILENCE.
Here the Parsees, the fire worshipers
deposit their dead TO be devoured by vul
lures. On the trees about, and on tn
, white walls which surround the towers
these monstrous birds are seen in focks
Suddenly they rise in the air-a corpse i
being brought up the steps The relative
leave the body of the young girl at tn
door of the tower: it is taken with by al
, tendant priests and placed on an iro
!, grating. Meanwhile some cormorant
i, have left their prey on the reef to join tn
! vultures in their feast on the shore
the moment the priests retire, these loath
3 some fowls. chaItering with fury, swoo
e down to strip the body of every particle c
/ flesh, another cloud of the dreadfJ
snatchers fly up into view, screaming an
: fighting among themselves over some Ion
: fragment till somehow the Earring discor
9 is ended and they settle dow
S once more behind the white vale
Q sepulchre while the locker 0