Following the Equator eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 703 pages of information about Following the Equator.

Following the Equator eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 703 pages of information about Following the Equator.

Chapter LI. 
Benares a Religious Temple—­A Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing
Salvation

Chapter LII.  A Curious Way to Secure Salvation—­The Banks of the Ganges—­Architecture Represents Piety—­A Trip on the River—­Bathers and their Costumes —­Drinking the Water—­A Scientific Test of the Nasty Purifier—­Hindoo Faith in the Ganges—­A Cremation—­Remembrances of the Suttee—­All Life Sacred Except Human Life—­The Goddess Bhowanee, and the Sacrificers—­Sacred Monkeys—­Ugly Idols Everywhere—­Two White Minarets—­A Great View with a Monkey in it—­A Picture on the Water

Chapter LIII. 
Still in Benares—­Another Living God—­Why Things are Wonderful—­Sri 108
Utterly Perfect—­How He Came so—­Our Visit to Sri—­A Friendly Deity
Exchanging Autographs and Books—­Sri’s Pupil—­An Interesting Man
—­Reverence and Irreverence—­Dancing in a Sepulchre

Chapter LIV. 
Rail to Calcutta—­Population—­The “City of Palaces”—­A Fluted
Candle-stick—­Ochterlony—­Newspaper Correspondence—­Average Knowledge of
Countries—­A Wrong Idea of Chicago—­Calcutta and the Black Hole
—­Description of the Horrors—­Those Who Lived—­The Botanical Gardens—­The
Afternoon Turnout—­Grand Review—­Military Tournament—­Excursion on the
Hoogly—­The Museum—­What Winter Means Calcutta

Chapter LV On the Road Again—­Flannels in Order—­Across Country—­From Greenland’s Icy Mountain—­Swapping Civilization—­No Field women in India—­How it is in Other Countries—­Canvas-covered Cars—­The Tiger Country—­My First Hunt Some Elephants Get Away—­The Plains of India—­The Ghurkas—­Women for Pack-Horses—­A Substitute for a Cab—­Darjeeling—­The Hotel—­The Highest Thing in the Himalayas—­The Club—­Kinchinjunga and Mt.  Everest —­Thibetans—­The Prayer Wheel—­People Going to the Bazar

Chapter LVI. 
On the Road Again—­The Hand-Car—­A Thirty-five-mile Slide—­The Banyan
Tree—­A Dramatic Performance—­The Railroad—­The Half-way House—­The Brain
Fever Bird—­The Coppersmith Bird—­Nightingales and Cue Owls

Chapter LVII.  India the Most Extraordinary Country on Earth—­Nothing Forgotten—­The Land of Wonders—­Annual Statistics Everywhere about Violence—­Tiger vs.  Man—­A Handsome Fight—­Annual Man Killing and Tiger Killing—­Other Animals—­Snakes—­Insurance and Snake Tables—­The Cobra Bite—­Muzaffurpore —­Dinapore—­A Train that Stopped for Gossip—­Six Hours for Thirty-five Miles—­A Rupee to the Engineer—­Ninety Miles an Hour—­Again to Benares, the Piety Hive To Lucknow

Chapter LVIII. 
The Great Mutiny—­The Massacre in Cawnpore—­Terrible Scenes in Lucknow
—­The Residency—­The Siege

Chapter LIX. 
A Visit to the Residency—­Cawnpore—­The Adjutant Bird and the Hindoo
Corpse—­The Tai Mahal—­The True Conception—­The Ice Storm—­True Gems
—­Syrian Fountains—­An Exaggerated Niagara

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