492 TEMPLE or JUGGERNAUT. 



' they had no home but where their mother was.' O, there is no 

 pity in Juggernaut ! no merry, no tenderness of heart in Moloch's 

 kingdom ! Those who support his kingdom, err, I trust, from 

 ignorance. ' They know not what they do." 



" As to the number of worshippers assembled here at this time, 

 no accurate calculation can be made. The natives themselves 

 when speaking of the numbers at particular festivals, usually say 

 that a lack of people (100,000) would not be missed. 1 asked a 

 Brahmin how many he supposed were present at the most nu. 

 merous festival he had ever witnessed. ' How can I tell/ said he, 

 ' how many grains there are in a handful of sand ?" 



" The languages spoken here are various, as there are Hindoos 

 from every country in Indi : but the two chief languages in use 

 by those who are resident, are the Orissa and the Telinga. The 

 border of the Telinga country is only a few miles distant from th 

 tower of Juggernaut*." 



" Chilka Lake, 24/A June. 



" I felt my mind relieved and happy when I had passed 

 beyond the confines of Juggernaut. I certainly was not prepared 

 for this scene. But no one can know what it is who has not seen 

 it. From an eminence + on the pleasant banks of the Chilka Lake 

 (where no human bones are seen) I had a view of the lofty tower 

 of Juggernaut far remote ; and while I viewed it, its abominations 

 came to mind. It was on the morning of the Sabbath. Ruminat- 

 ing long on the wide and extended empire of Moloch in the hea. 

 then world, I cherished in my thoughts the design of some ' Chris. 

 tian Institution,' which, being fostered in Britain, my Christian 

 country, might gradually undermine this baleful idolatry, and put 

 out the memory of it for ever." 



* It will give pleasure to the render to hear, that a translation of the Holy 

 Scriptures is preparing in Oriisa and Telinga, the languages of Juggernaut. 

 + Manickpatam. 



