Terrible to Contemplate.
"As an example of human endurance and the power of blind faith," remarked a traveller to the writer, "I do not think that you can beat what I once saw when on the road to Pdking. "It was an intolerably hot and dusty afternoon when I observed a man and woman coming in my direction. The man kept taking one long step, would then bring his other foot up and measure his length in the road. Having knocked his head three times on the hard ground, ho would rise, and go through the performance again. The woman was his wife, and was waiting upon him. "In answer to my questions, he replied that he was fulfilling a vow made to Buddha, who had restored his son to health, and that he had promised to travel 2000 miles in this way ! He covered, he said, about three miles every day. As he was 78 years old, ancl almost worn out, it was ea&y to see that he would not live to fulfil his vow. A hard lump as large as an egg projected from his forehead, raised by j his knocking his head upon the dusty road."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 71
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