102 COLONEL T. HOLBEIN HENDLEY, C.I.E., ON RESEMBLANCES 
On page 81, the reference to water reminds us of the method of 
irrigation in Egypt, see Deut. xi, 10, in which the land is described 
as watered “ with thy foot ” ; the same method may be seen in the 
Punjab to-day. 
Many of the habits of the East referred to in the Bible, such as 
those connected with early rising, sun worship, notifying the first 
appearance of the new moon, dogs as scavengers, hand mills, lamps, 
skin bottles, etc., are to be observed in India at the present time. 
It was an ancient idea that as the sun rises there, the East was 
considered to be the front, hence in Hebrew “ the right hand” 
“ yemen ” was also the south (1 Sam. xxiii, 19, etc.). The Sanscrit 
name “ Deccan ,” right hand, or south is still employed to denote a 
certain large part of the Indian peninsula. 
Colonel Henclley has lightly touched on the idolatry, bribery, 
immorality, and degradation of women prevalent in India, which 
have rendered most of the chief men of that land (broadly speaking) 
incapable of ruling, though there are, of course, individuals of fine 
character to be found. These conditions are parallel with the 
abominations of the heathen Canaanites who were dispossessed of 
their country for their wickedness by the Israelites (Deut. ix, 4, 5). 
Though we English are by no means faultless in India, yet 
justice, order, and righteous dealing are administered. Let us trust 
that the parallel to the Israelites in Canaan be not carried further 
by our adopting any false worship from the inhabitants of India. 
Hitherto we have been preserved from doing so, but of late years a 
few Europeans have professed to follow the false light of Buddhism. 
Mr. Bouse. — The fact that the final umpire in the boundary 
dispute, which was so long in being settled, clothed himself, accord- 
ing to agreement, in the hide of a newly killed buffalo, reminds one 
that the covenant which the men of wealth in Judea made in King 
Zedekiah’s time to let all their Hebrew bondservants go free was 
made with the solemnity of cutting a calf in twain and passing 
between the halves, and when the covenant was broken, God said, 
through Jeremiah, that He would punish with the sword of the 
Chaldean army, princes, priests, and people who had “ passed 
between the parts of the calf ” (Jer. xxxiv, 8-11, 17, 18, 19). And 
doubtless this form of covenant had been practised in the family of 
Abraham and nation of Israel ever since Jehovah himself, in 
making a covenant with the patriarch touching his descendants, had 
