Mr.Parker says that the lingams in Benares "outnumber the inhabitants." In Benares there are many Mohammedan mosques.

There are Hindoo temples without number--these quaintly shaped and elaborately sculptured little stone jugs crowd all the lanes.

The Ganges itself and every individual drop of water in it are temples.

Religion, then, is the business of Benares, just as gold-production is the business of Johannesburg.

Other industries count for nothing as compared with the vast and all-absorbing rush and drive and boom of the town's specialty.