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Bozidar Karadordevic. Enchanted India

Enchanted India

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AT SEA

BOMBAY

ELLORA

NANDGAUN

BARODA

AHMEDABAD

PALITANA

BHAWNAGAR

BOMBAY

HYDERABAD

TRICHINOPOLY

MADURA

TUTICORIN

COLOMBO

KANDY

MADRAS

CALCUTTA

DARJEELING

BENARES

ALLAHABAD

LUCKNOW

CAWNPORE

GWALIOR

AGRA

JEYPOOR

DELHI

AMRITSUR

LAHORE

Footnote

RAWAL PINDI

PESHAWUR

MURREE

GARHI

SRINAGAR

RAMPOOR

DOMEL

DERWAL

KOHAT

BUNNOO

KOHAT

DEHRA DOON

HARDWAR

DELHI

BOMBAY

AT SEA

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Bozidar Karadordevic

Published by Good Press, 2022

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Then, suddenly, there was a clatter of tom-toms, and rattling of castanets, a Hindoo funeral passing by. The dead lay stretched on a bier, his face painted and horrible, a livid grin between the dreadful scarlet cheeks, covered with wreaths of jasmine and roses. A man walking before the corpse carried a jar of burning charcoal to light the funeral pile. Friends followed the bier, each bringing a log of wood, to add to the pyre as a last homage to the dead.

A Mohammedan funeral now. The body was in a coffin, covered with red stuff, sparkling with gold thread. The bearers and mourners chanted an almost cheerful measure, as they marched very slowly to the burial-ground by the seaside, where the dead rest under spreading banyans and flowering jasmine.

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