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Title: The critic in the Occident
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Fitch, George Hamlin, 1952-
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Publisher: San Francisco : P. Elder & Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
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or apparently does it shock them that alienhands should bare the bodies of their beloved dead;but to a foreigner both these aspects of Parsee bur-ial are repellant and no argument has any weight tocounteract this sentiment. Many sensational accounts of these Parsee bur-ial rites have been printed. Nearly every writer laysstress on the fact that pieces of the dead bodies aredropped by the vultures within the grounds or inthe streets outside. This is an absurdity, as thevulture never rises on the wing with any carrion-he eats it on the spot and he will not leave untilhe is gorged to repletion. An effort was made sev-eral years ago to remove these towers of silence onMalabar hill because of complaints that fragmentsof corpses were found in the neighborhood. Whentwo competent medical experts investigated thematter they reported that there was no foundationfor the complaints. So the towers have remainedand thousands of Parsees have been borne to themfor the last rites of their creed. (134)
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PLATE XLI One of the Main Gates to Government House, Calcutta. This Gate is of Beautiful Proportions and Has a Fine Lion. Government House is Situated in a Fine Park of Six Acres

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