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...is carried out, but filters of sand and charcoals are prepared and thes pick up the impurities and the water is rendered pure. Thus they say "earth to earth". The description sounds horrid, but its was far more pleasing than the burning ghats. The Parsees are called fire worshippers, but they only do so as an emblem. They regard fire as a sacred power of God. They are clever, educated, advanced people and surely could not literally worship fire altho' their ancestors undoubtedly did. In a small temple within the grounds a fire has been burning since the place was established. We drove over the Malabar Hill [illegible] of Bombay and...