1 GHOSTS.
2 an IndiiD* and performing a variety of incwtatioiMi lor the tnupoie-of
3 fascinating the affectima of his miatreia» -
4 Near Candahar is a cam called the cave of Junuhaedf to the end
5 of which it is impoaaible to penatnto* apparently on account of a
6 torrent whidi obstructs the paange} but tkH A%hMiii» ralate^ thai
7 after advancing a certain distance, one hears the roar of winds and the
8 rushing of waters, and that all progress is soon stopt by a wheel
9 armed with swords, which is whirled round wit!? such force an <1 velo-
10 city as threatens to annihilate every thin^ that approaches it. Some
11 bold adventurers, however, have overcome these obstacles, and reached
12 a most enchanting garden in the bowds of the earth. Thev di scribe
13 the verdure of this delicious region, its bowers, woods, fliul lawns;
14 its transparent streams, and its flowers ol a ilu>usaiid biillianL hues, as
15 far surpassing anv scene that the human imagination can figure;
16 while the exquisite iiuit.s, ihe perfumed breeze:5, aaici Uie ravishing
17 music which fior ever resounds, are equal to the warmest pictures of
18 the Mahommedan paradise.
19 Hie ^fjjf^mmm .bdieve cadi of the nmnesoiu mUtmbsi m the
20 moimtaina and desarts of thdr ooimtiy to be inhabited by a kndljr
21 demODt whom they call the GhooUee Beeabaun (the Goule or ^imt
22 of the waile) $ they represent fahn as a gigantic and frightful spedMb
23 who devoma way pasaangv whom diance may hdog within his
24 haunts. It is to Ihb spirit that th^ ascribe liie illutton by whldi
25 traveUera are often led to believe that they see sheets of water in the
26 midst of the desait, and they figure him watching near* to sciae the
27 unhappy wanderer who may be misled by his aitifice» and tear him
28 to pieces. *
29 They haveall a great reverenoe for burial grounds, which they some-
30 times call by the poetical name of cities of the silent, and which they
31 people with the ghosts of the departed, who sit each at the head of
32 * Ynok. diis popular superstilkHO, they often iUuttmte an scoount of the vildness of anj
33 sequestered tiib% by Mjing that tfasgr «n Glkook* Bahnm (wildwtlie d«BMns cf tfc*
34 uiyiiizeo by LiOOglc