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225, Story of an Emigrant.
the European plan, and close to these again others where
young students in oriental costumes and turbaned heads,
squat before a half-naked Brahmin, seeking wisdom and
knowledge from the works of the Vedas or Shastras.
It is therefore not surprising that in the very harbor
where American and European flags are waving from
hundreds of mast-heads lies Nimtoolaghat, a Hindoo place of
cremation, from which the whole day long dense clouds
MMTOOLAGHAT — PI. ACE OF CREMATION.
of smoke arise, scattering the vapors of burning human
bodies. It is a large brick building which is divided into two
apartments by a brick wall. The apartment which is next
to the street is covered by a roof, but the one next to the
harbor is open at the top. The floor is made of clay,
excepting the spots under the funeral pyres, where it consists
of large flagstones. I have often stood at this place, and it
alwavs seemed to me that our cemetcries with their monu-
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