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THE ALLIGATOR PosD AT KuRRAcHEE.- In this pond about fifty alligaors are kept, seyera

 of which are more than twenty feet long. These animals are accounted sacred, and the pilgrims must offer goat to obtain sight of them and to satisfy thelr rapacity. They are under the special charge of faklrs, and we had scarcely disnounted when se

 yeial of these dirty, naked men, came to offer teiI services One of them broke of some reeds to keel at bay the eager a,gators, and cr;ed iu mournfu

 tone. "Owh, owh!'' "Come, come" About thirty or these reptiles instantly crept out of the water and

 like so many dogs, lay in a semi circle at the feet oi their master. u was strange scene io see these animals, with wide, gaping jaws, not more than four steps from you; but they were so doce that they drew back at the slightest touch with the reed.- Meantime. our guide had purchased a goa, for n rupee i, il was slaughtered the spot and thrown in large pieces to the algators, which greedv tried to snatch thu morsels from their companions, and so doing their sca'y bodies stuck with so much vio- ence against each other, that some of them rolled completely over. After they had finished their re- past, the fakr drove them back into the pond. The largest aud most sacred of these allgaors, which we estimated at nearly 25 feet in length, kept by . sell ip the bssin.-kvpn Orich's Travels ip India.