BABER. 
199 
In this manner milk is frequently conveyed to a dis- 
tance of ten or a dozen, and sometimes even twenty 
miles, to some town on the river ; and when thus 
disposed of, the men return by land, first destroying 
the pots, which are so cheap as to be scarcely of any 
value. This novel mode of transportation may be 
daily witnessed upon the Ganges. 
The scene is very animated and imposing. The 
numerous boats, with their various forms and modes 
of rigging — the busy groups of swimmers proceed- 
ing to the bazars of some neighbouring town to dis- 
pose of the produce of their dairies — the fishermen 
plying their occupation in the creeks and friths — the 
towns and villages, with their groves and gardens, 
their pagodas and their ghauts — altogether present a 
sum of objects peculiarly arresting to the eye of a 
stranger ; and perhaps there is no river upon earth 
where the scene is so constantly varied and at all 
times so intensely interesting as upon the sacred 
Ganges — a river especially consecrated to idolatry and 
superstition. 
