have adored (not the visible material sun, but) that divine and in- 
comparably greater light, to use the words of the most venerable 
text in the Indian scripture, which illumines all, delights all, from 
which all proceed, lo which all must return, and which alone can 
irradiate (not our visual organs merely, but our souls, and) our 
intellects. Whatever opinion, in short, may be formed of Menu 
and his laws, in a country happily enlightened by sound philo- 
sophy, and the only true revelation, it must be remembered, that 
those laws are actually revered as the word of the Most High, by 
nations of great importance to the political and commercial inte- 
rests of Europe, and particularly by many millions of Hindoo 
subjects, whose well directed industry adds largely to the wealth 
of Britain, and who ask no more in return than protection for 
their persons and places of abode, justice in their temporal con- 
cerns, indulgence to the prejudice of their own religion, and the 
benefit of those laws which they have been taught to believe sacred, 
and which alone they can possibly comprehend/’ 
The fakeers, or yogees, of the Senassce tribe, are a set of men- 
dicant philosophers, who travel all over Hindostan, and live on 
the charity of the other castes of Hindoos. They are generally 
entirely naked, most of them robust handsome men: they admit 
proselytes from the other tribes, especially youth of bright parts, 
and take great pains to instruct them in their mysteries. These 
Gymnosophisls often unite in large armed bodies, and perform 
pilgrimages to the sacred rivers and celebrated temples; but they 
are more like an army marching through a province, than an 
assembly of saints in procession lo a temple; and often lay the 
countries through which they pass under contribution. 
