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...water from a tank before her. Smallpox has made terrible scourges as one may see from the pit marked faces and now vaccination is compulsory but this goddess is doubtless more efficacious. On the river bank two places are set aside for burning ghats. We saw a woman burning this morning and two other were being carried down this afternoon. Only men go to the funeral. They sit around and see the corpse burn. At a proper time, a dear friend, a son of the dead or a father, cracks the skull so as to let out the...