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memorial of their benevolence to their fellow 

 creatures. 



It is also frequently inculcated in the Bible 

 to be kind to bondsmen, and to be frequent in 

 ablutions to keep the body clean. Wherever 

 bondage or any other species of slavery is so 

 common as in India, it becomes good policy to 

 treat them with kindness and humanity ; which I 

 believe is generally practised in India. The 

 Hindoos, every morning before they offer their 

 prayers to the Almighty, undergo ablution, and 

 seldom partake of any meal without doing the 

 same, (if they have the means,) which they repeat 

 after having eaten. 



In hot climates, frequent ablutions have been 

 found from experience to be beneficial to health, 

 as well as a comfort to the people, and is therefore 

 wisely enacted in the divine code. 



The various superstitions of the Hindoos, with 

 many of their forms of religion, such as frequent 

 offerings of animals sacrificed division into tribes 

 or casts their method of cultivating their land 

 having but few fences following the same 

 business as their forefathers, and a variety of 



