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the rain was pouring- tln'oiigh the roof like a sieve, 

 and about noon next day I found myself comfortably 

 housed at the Traveller's Inuigalow of Mangalore. 



This town has not much to boast of in point of 

 beauty ; there is a large native quarter and a consider- 

 able amount of trade, shipping as well as inland. The 

 harbour smells strongly of fish, which is salted and 

 packed for export, whilst the dead fish and refuse 

 are sent hj cart to Mysore to serve as manure. 

 There is at Mangalore as elsewhere a good sprinkling- 

 of mosques and temples, the lattei' belonging to the 

 Jain sect, mucli resembling the usual style of Hindu 

 architecture. There are now j^robably, proportionately, 

 more Jains in Canara than in any other province of 

 India, excepting perhaps Chota Nagpur. Their exact 

 origin is still involved in obscurity ; they seceded 

 from the Brahmins at a somewhat later period than 

 the Buddhists, say about the fourth century B.C., 

 and they have much in common with the latter, 

 excepting that they admit into their religious system 

 the worship of some of the favourite Hindu 

 divinities and also retain caste, to which they 

 owed part of their popularity, whilst the followers 

 of Buddha have dwindled down to a very narrow 

 circle, if indeed they can be said to exist at all in 

 India. 



