Peeps at Many Lands-India

h-west, from the Himalayas in the north to the Vindhya Hills in the south spreads this vast sweep of land, the Plain of Hindostan. Into this plain flow a thousand streams, great and small, from

oly waters is a privilege for which pilgrims will travel on foot from distant lands. But the mighty flood is put to other uses than that of worship. A network of can

at, and fades away into a misty horizon, save that at morning and evening the great snowy heig

reen fields of paddy (rice), with golden wheat and barley, with poppies white in flower, with yellow mustard, with lentils, potatoes, castor-oil plants, and a

own its long shoots, which strike it into the soil and form supports to the parent branches. Around the village pastures the herd of buffaloes, often watched by a small bo

followed. In many of them, far from the main river and the railway, a white face is scarcely ever seen. There are great towns in the Ga

e rice, which demands a flood of water, a pair of oxen are set to the work. They are harnessed to a rope which runs over a pulley and has a huge water-skin fastened to its farther end. As the oxen go away from the well they pull up the skin full of water till it reaches a prepared channel. H

CATTLE.

, of rice, of barley, of poppies for opium, of cotton, and of maize. They cut their ditches for irrigation, and flood a