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to whom his mamma had prayed at Dinapore was no better than the Gods of wood, and stone, and clay which his bearer worshipped. He also believed that the River Ganges was a Goddess, and called Gunga; and that the water of the river could take away sins. He believed, too, that the Mussulmauns were as good as Christians; for his mother's khaunsummawn[1] had told him so. Besides these, he was taught by the servants many other things, which a little boy should not know: but the ser-
- ↑ A kind of house-steward.
