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Excerpt from India
The gateway to India on its eastern coast is Calcutta, the rival of Bombay. As we approached it, the multitude of ships and steamers on the river Hugli exceeded anything that I had ever seen. For several miles we sailed past vessels of the largest size, frequently anchored five abreast. I was in formed that one of these ships had just brought from England a hundred and twenty tons of gin and forty tons of Bibles. If this proportion is maintained on all of them, we may dis cover why the advent here of Christian nations is not regarded by the natives as an unmixed blessing. It is, however, probable that the gin is chie?y intended for the Europeans, while the poor heathen have to take the Bibles.
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