The great majority of the people can see no good in them, and no harm in using the same tank for drinking purposes and for bathing and washing their clothes.

The immediate surroundings of their towns and villages are most offensive, being used as the general receptacles for dead animals and all kinds of filth.

Cholera, fever, and other diseases, which carry off hundreds of thousands every year, are looked upon as the visitation of God, from which it is impossible, even were it not impious to try, to escape; and the precautionary measures insisted upon by us in our cantonments, and at the fairs and places of pilgrimage, are viewed with aversion and indignation.

Only those who have witnessed the personal discomfort and fatigue to which Natives of all ages and both sexes willingly submit in their struggle to reach some holy shrine on the occasion of a religious festival, while dragging their weary limbs for many hundreds of miles along a hot, dusty road, or being huddled for hours together in a crammed and stifling railway carriage, can have any idea of the bitter disappointment to the pilgrims caused by their being ordered to disperse when cholera breaks out at such gatherings, without being given the opportunity of performing their vows or bathing in the sacred waters.[1] Further, our legislative system is based on western ideas, its object being to mete out equal justice to the rich and poor, to the Prince and peasant.

But our methods of procedure do not commend themselves to the Indian peoples.