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here no tumult in the streets ; but the craftsmen are 
busy in their shops. Smiling damsels are drawing 
water at the wells, and even the children are 
demure and well behaved, no unruly urchins 
throAving dirt at the stranger as he passes. The 
A^ery dogs have a sort of canine politeness, and 
disdain to snarl and bark at the Avanderer from 
distant climes avIio has landed on their shore. 
The streets are wide, Avell watered, and bounded by 
roAvs of unpainted houses consisting of one story, 
each offering on the roof the someAvhat remarkable 
spectacle of a tub of Avater and a l3room, obviously 
precautions in case of fire. 
As I strolled alone about the toAAUi I came to the 
great temple of Buddha, into the courts of Avhich I 
entered. It Avas ornamented with numerous strange 
devices, among Avhich were quaint dragons and huge 
stone tortoises. WLile I was gazing abstractedly at 
these ungainly figures, a burst of sunlight streaming 
through a little windoAV in the roof covered the 
colossal gilded idol Avith a golden glory, revealing 
at the same time the figure of a female devotee 
