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A VISIT TO BALAKHANI.
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MODERN FIRE-WORSHIPPERS—PARSEE LADY AND DAUGHTER
MODERN FIRE-WORSHIPPERS—PARSEE LADY AND DAUGHTER

MODERN FIRE-WORSHIPPERS—PARSEE LADY AND DAUGHTER.

The iron cisterns or tanks are of great size; the largest of them is said to have a capacity of two million gallons.

"There is no hotel, not even a restaurant, at Balakhani, and we should have gone hungry had it not been for the caution of the hotel-keeper, who advised us to take a luncheon with us. The ride and the exertion of walking among the wells gave us an appetite that an alderman would envy,