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IS 195.2 Story of an Emigrant.
the cremated bodies of their dead relatives to throw them
in the holy river. Many of them had traveled great
distances and been on the journey for months. Old men who
did not expect to return to their homes, but were in hopes of
finding a grave in the sacred waters, and had said good-bye
indian cart.
to everything which bound them to life; cripples and
invalids expecting to be cured on the banks of the Ganges,
congregated in large numbers at this sacred place. Fanatical
penitents came crawling on hands and feet; holy Fakirs had
measured the way by the length of their own bodies for
scores of miles. The penitent Fakir who travels in this
manner lies down on the ground with his head toward the
place of destination, makes a mark in the ground in front of
his head, and crawls forward the length of his body and lies
down again with the feet where he had his head before; a
new mark, another movement ahead, etc., and so he keeps
on, one length of his body at a time, until he reaches the
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