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" a'vec la mesme magnificence, qu'onl'avoit portee sur ce chariot de 

 " triomphc, a cole de Jaggernaut son epoux,ces brahmens luy font 

 " dire hautement au peuple, tout ce quelle a appris de ces fourbes, 

 " comme l'ayant appris de la bouche mesme de Jaggernaut." 



Such is the faithful account of an unprejudiced traveller a 

 hundred and fifty years ago : it is well known this infamous practice 

 still continues! Silence from those who have obtained the same 

 knowledge, should not sanction such infamous proceedings, under 

 the idea of vindicating a "harmless religion/' if a religion can be 

 so called, which allows of infanticide; encourages a young mother 

 to deprive her infants of maternal care, and sacrifice herself on 

 the funeral pile of her husband; which ordains a child not four 

 years old to be betrothed to a man of forty; and, should he die 

 before the marriage is consummated, dooms her to virgin-widow- 

 hood, and domestic degradation, for the remainder of her life. 

 The murder of female infants among whole tribes of Hindoos, and 

 the painful cremation of widows, cannot be included in that de- 

 scription; neither are their sacrifices confined to flowers, fruit, and 

 herbs, nor yet to that of animals. It is proved, by late researches 

 into Hindoo mythology, that human victims were formerly offered 

 by the brahmins to the destructive powers; probably, in that sense, 

 now every where discontinued. But what can be said by their 

 modern advocates for the sacrifice of those pilgrims who annually 

 resort to the temples of Jaggernaut, and are encouraged by the 

 brahmins to place themselves under the enormous wheels of the 

 idol's triumphal car, and thus be crushed to death, amidst the shouts 

 and acclamations of a deluded multitude attending the proces- 



