CHAPTER Y. 



GOKERN AND TAANA. THE BISON. 



GOKERN is the name of a very ancient 

 temple of great repute for sanctity 

 among the Hindoos of western India. 

 The temple and the little town which 

 has grown up round it are built on the 

 shore of a pretty sheltered cove lined 

 with cocoa-nut palms. Close behind the 

 temple rise two steep conical hills covered 

 with short turf; these hills are united 

 at their base, round which the houses 

 nestle closely. They are precisely equal 

 in height and of similar shape, and when 

 looked at from the sea, exactly embody 



