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The Nepalese women are the prettiest I have seen
in the Orient but they are doing fearfully hard work; many
employed in carrying heavy stone on their backs for miles.

January 6th.
Got up at 3:45 and started with two other men on horseback
to Tiger Hill to see the sunrise. There I was rewarded by one
of the sublimest sights mortal eye has ever gazed upon--a
perfect view of the great ampitheater of "the snows", in-
cluding Everest and Kinchinjunga, the loftiest peaks formed
by the Almighty's hand. I have never felt about any other
spectacle so utterly at a loss for language to describe my
emotions.

January 7th.
Had chotohazree on the Ganges and reached Calcutta about
noon. Decided to cut our Egypt and the Holy Land from my
trip and had Cook engage passage for me on the Franconia
from London February 25th. Cabled Raleigh: "Home March 4th.
Inform sister."

Called on Rev. Mr. Grose, a Methodist pastor whom
I found interesting, had a long walk with an Irish laborer, and
at night heard a lecture on "The Moslem World" at the Y. M.
C. A.

January 8th.
Visited the Kalighat, the temple of "Mother Kali" and saw the
hideous sacrifices of kids, and the prayers to the terrible
goddess. Also shrines for Juggernaut, for the god of the small-
pox, and others. Many pilgrims bathing in the Ganges. Later
visited "burning ghats" where corpses were in various stages