10 THE GEEAT EAIE AT. HFEDWAE. 



grown river, in all its magnificence. Beat 

 some capital jungle but did not find, so com- 

 menced shooting deer, till a boy from a party 

 of herdsmen reported a bullock killed yester- 

 day ; took him up to show the spot ; found 

 the tiger, killed, and went home. 



April 8th. — To Hurdwar ; beat all the 

 way, and found nothing. The great fair 

 was going on, which is one of the 

 most remarkable and interesting in Asia. 

 Wandered through the varied crowd of 

 pilgrims and merchants. Brahmins and 

 jugglers, buyers, sellers, devotees, and 

 dancing girls, who, mingled with thieves and 

 adventurers, the scum of the east, and those 

 attracted by curiosity and fanaticism, make 

 up the varied crowd of a fair on the banks 

 of the sacred stream. Great numbers were 

 washing their blackness in the Ganges. 

 Many lives used to be lost annually, by the 

 multitude rushing at certain hours to bathe 

 in certain favourite spots, somewhat, I 

 fancy, upon the principle of " the devil take 

 the hmdmost." The Ghats were widened in 



