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fact, perhaps the reverse is the case ; but the symbols 

 are fewer, and indeed almost confined to the feet of 

 Paras-nath, and the priests jealously conceal their esoteric 

 doctrines. 



The temples, though small, are well built, and carefully 

 kept. No persuasion could induce the Brahmins to 

 allow us to proceed beyond the vestibule without taking 

 off our shoes, to which we were not inclined to 

 consent. The bazaar was for so small a village large, 

 and crowded to excess with natives of all castes, colours, 

 and provinces of India, very many from the extreme 

 W. and N. W., Rajpootana, the Madras Presidency, and 

 Central India. Numbers had come in good cars, well 

 attended, and appeared men of wealth and consequence ; 

 while the quantities of conveyances of all sorts standing 

 about, rather reminded me of an election, than of 

 anything I had seen in India. 



The natives of the place were a more Negro-looking 

 race than the Bengalees to whom I had previously been 

 accustomed ; and the curiosity and astonishment they 

 displayed at seeing (probably many of them for the first 

 time) a party of Englishmen, were sufficiently amusing. 

 Our coolies with provisions not having come up, and it 

 being two o'clock in the afternoon, I having had no break- 

 fast, and being ignorant of the exclusively Jain population 

 of the village, sent my servant to the bazaar, for some 

 fowls and eggs ; but he was mobbed for asking for these 

 articles, and parched rice, beaten flat, with some coarse 

 sugar, was all I could obtain ; together with sweetmeats so 

 odiously flavoured with various herbs, and sullied with such 

 impurities, that we quickly made them over to the elephants. 



Not being able to ascend the mountain and return 

 in one day, Mr. Williams and his party went back 



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