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In religion and education the Parsees are far in adyaueca of Mahomitans sud Hindcos, Their creed is 2 pure deism, ia which God’2 warks, sch sa fire, the sun and the sea, are worshiped ag the mranifostations or visible reprasentativesel Godenearth. Their tem- yles are as plain as 3 Quaker meeting houae, aud disfigured by no idels or tawdry deco- ration. The men are well educated, and there ia not a pauper in tho whele race, The women of the bigher clas; of Parsees are nob ecelided, but ate frequently te be eoen on the fashionable Crives and prome- uades. They are quite goed lookirg and but little darker in complexion than the southern races of Europe. ‘he Parseo nantes on the street siens are a3 peenliar as Chinese. They are of many syllables, hard fo prononnes, and allend in *yce.””
Bombay ie farther south then Calenita, and more Oriental and tropical than any other place Y have seen in Indian. Theatreet Fognes sre curiols and novel, even to one whe hasbeen through Japs and Chins. The turbans, in size and ssy colors, best the world. They are from iwo to three feet in diameter, of bright eslersd fabricy, alternately twisted in the most elaborate and artistic style. Ticoxe, flawing trowsers of pink or dius silk, and tanices to correspoud, make the street costumes decidedly gay ud lively. Theturhans are sometimes com- posed of forty or ilig-marts of different col- ored silks or eotton.
The “Byculla Hotel” is an immense build: ing 200 feet long and perkans eighty wids. The whole lower floor ig in ona xeom, twenty-five feet high, with doorg und win- dows of Venetian blingsy on every ride, through which the sir sweeps freely. ‘Phe long dining table is down tha center, and on one side area few private rooms, lnxuriousty furnished and atrazged with low moveable fereens, The table fs excellent and the variety of the fruits unsurpassed. Our landlord is a Parsee, whospasks Huglish perfectly, but bis dreas is a strange mixture af the European and the Oriental—n tail Parsee mitershaped hat, an English coat, vest and necktie, and loose trawsera c, hright bluo silk, tied round the ankle ana flowiag over Turkish slippers. Tho twit tering of sparrows who fi7 jn snd ent free 28 the wind and tame eq esuary birds, 1a a novel secompaniment io ourmeals. Bosidea the “voluntary” by the birds, during the
