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then stopped ; a boy of about twelve years old was now brought 

 forth, to attempt something yet more lascivious, if peradventure the 

 god would move. The child perfected the praise of his idol with 

 such ardent expression and gesture, that the god was pleased, and 

 the multitude emitting a sensual yell of delight, urged the car 

 along. After a few minutes it stopped again. An aged minister 

 of the idol then stood up, and with a long rod in his hand, which 

 he moved with indecent action, completed the variety of this dis- 

 gusting exhibition. 



" After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim an- 

 nounced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. 

 He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was 

 moving along, lying on his face with his arms stretched forward. 

 The multitude passed round him, leaving the space clear; and he 

 was crushed to death by the wheels of the tower. A shout of 

 joy was raised to the god; he is said to smile when the libation of 

 blood is made. The people threw cowries, or small mone}-, on the 

 body of the victim, in approbation of the deed. He was left to 

 view a considerable time, and was then carried by the hurries to 

 the Golgotha, where I have just been viewing his remains." 



Juggernaut, 10th June. 



" The horrid solemnities still continue; yesterday a 

 woman devoted herself to the idol. She laid herself down on the 

 road in an oblique direction, so that the wheels did not kill her 

 instantaneously, as is generally the case; but she died in a few 

 hours. This morning as I passed the ' place of skulls' nothing re- 

 mained of her but her bones. 



