GHAZIPORE, 
79 
put the youths themselves to the sword. Truly 
it seems as if every object which we explore in India 
must have some fearful tale of massacre or bloodshed 
attached to it, which cannot fail to excite our sympa- 
thies, and show us the evils of barbarism, the merciless 
dealings of those whose savage hearts have not been 
humanized by culture and civilization. It is only 
wonderful that in the storm of war and zealous bigotry 
which not long since raged throughout Hindostan 
and deluged the land with blood from north to south, 
dyeing the rivers purple with human gore, and scat- 
tering the terrified inhabitants from their homes, to 
seek refuge in the deep cover of the forest, until reta- 
liation could be safely enjoyed ; I say it is surprising 
that any religious buildings of either faith remain at 
all to this day. 
But it is not a little remarkable that while the 
Mussulman armies were devastating and subverting 
every temple and every religious edifice of the Hin- 
doos, which they could bring under their destroying 
hands, the Hindoos themselves paid due respect to 
the mosques and sacred buildings of their enemies, 
nor were they ever guilty of their mutilation. It is the 
nature of superstition to be swayed more by fear than 
by hope, and the credulity of the Hindoo is not more 
remarkable than his tolerance of, or even his reverence 
for other religious faiths. A conscientious Hindoo 
would esteem it a crime to deface a Moslem place 
of sanctity, or a Christian church, and would anti- 
