A TUMCIE LE I 1 the gods ami lid goddesses displaced by bj hordes this is the temple which is corn com conly called the monkey temple on account of the large number dumber of mon keys all living aa gods and go goddesses odesses dd esses which were wera formerly there i in n great numbers some time before our vis via it a groat many of these monkeys had bad been sent away into the jin jingle g a because they were really becoming dangerous in a tho the neighborhood B warming swarming into private h honaew 0 around thieving and in soma cases injuring g the little children As we entered the sacred inclosure we wore were asked ached to take from plates some borne grain to teed food tho the monkeys which were still there and this feeding of the monkeys is considered by the people to be ba a most meritorious not before entering the tha inner inclosure of the temple there is a to bo be soon ballod the nan nall which a large kettledrum la a belicen thred timis a finy abero uro two smal 1 temples beyond this tin aad I 1 between these hose two stone pillars one of which is used as ap an altar aliar for sacrifices here wn we saw daw a goat goal offer pd ed up tip it was first taken to the priest and covered with oil and then out all unconscious as aa to its fate alo its head was bound to a wood en po jostand stand while one man held bald it by life its hind legal lega another with wit bone one stroke of bf an ax severed fieve roil the head from the body the head bead was then abea laid on the the body was taken goibe priests in the tha interior of th abo atom temple lie is a small shrine where site bits in all ga tier r hideousness the goddess godde gs she is cov COT ered with tin tinselled selled cloth and it is said that the priests keep kep several masks on they put on the abe head bead of the imago image some are of brass some s ins 0 of 13 silver ivor etc it is decorated with ith garlands arlands and chains of gold a small Is lamp ig kept burning burn on tho the shrine and on a both bath sunk into the ground while we were veatch ing the priest as he offered big flow ers era and tinkled his little bellin bell I 1 u old pilgrim from lucknow a came ame up and asked almlof him the merciless man answered him that it wati was rather bather tan B it buti buBin iniss BB to give alms aims to tb thill tom tern eli pie than to ask it there ind and advised him im to be contented now that bat he be bad reached De benares Ben aroa for the best beet thing for him now was to die in the sacred city the poor poor follow fellow seemed ve very hungry and I 1 offered him a liz little biscuit I 1 bad with me but I 1 soon found that I 1 bad made a elor the priest frowned on oil ma a took the biscuit from the old man and brought water which ho he poured over his handia to walsh away the pollution which had bad rearmed them from con coin tact with my Wit enit bunday casai we ine