10 THE BRAHMIN BUEL. 
no person presumed to molest the sacred ani- 
mals, the vicinity soon became desolate, and 
the magistrate was at last compelled to sell 
them all, with the exception of one hundred, 
which were left to the widow to sooth her 
misfortune.” 
Miss Roberts, in a short description of Be- 
nares, also remarks on the inconvenience suf- 
fered from these privileged beasts in that city, 
the narrow streets of which are infested by 
sacred animals. “ Of these the Brahmin bulls 
form a nuisance of no small magnitude, more 
particularly to the Moosulmaun portion of the 
inhabitants, who do not hold them, like the 
Hindoos, in deferential reverence. Allowed 
to thrust their devouring jaws into the baskets 
where grain and vegetables are exposed for 
sale in the bazaars, they grow to an immense 
size, and, over-fed and growing vicious with 
age, become extremely dangerous. The pas- 
senger who, blocked in some narrow entry, is 
