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GROUP OF HINDU ASCETICS SUNK IN SILENT MEDITATION
| They belong to the great army of Indian fakirs, which term has come to include not only the vast numbers of wandering Mahomedan mendicants, but also Hindu, Sikh, and Jain religious devotees. They have renounced the world in order to attain perfection of soul, and the austerity of their ascetic life is such as to make them regarded in the eyes of the orthodox as men of much sanctity |
ONE OF THE DIFFICULTIES OF DRIVING IN BENGAL
| All roads are embankments in Bengal, and the country being flat floods very quickly when the rains come. Here a bridge has been washed away and a frail footbridge improvised; the ground underneath is a veritable mire in the wet season, and if a loaded bullock-cart reaches this spot, its contents must be unloaded and carried over the bridge while the cart is dragged through the deep mud |