History of Sanitation
Forfatter: J. J. Cosgrove
År: 1910
Forlag: Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co
Sted: Pittsburgh U.S.A
Sider: 124
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HISTORY OF SANITATION
Over 100,000 men and women, many of them unaccustomed
to work or exposure, tug and strain at the car until they
drop exhausted and block the road with their bodies. Dur-
ing every month of the year a stream of devotees flows
along the great Orissa road from Calcutta, and every village
for three hundred miles has its pilgrim encampments.
Car of Juggernaut
The people travel in small bands, which at the time of
the great feasts actually touch each other. Five-sixths of
the whole are females and ninety-five per cent, travel on
foot, many of them marching hundreds and even thousands
of miles, a contingent having been drummed up from every
town or village in India by one or other of the three thou-
sand emissaries of the temple, who scour the country in all