f India, is only limited by his purse.

Elephants of greater size than the famous Jumbo, and also camels, enter
into common, every-day use here as do donkeys and horses in European
cities; but such horses as one sees at Lahore are generally very fine
creatures, of the true Arab breed, with faces almost human in
intelligence. These animals are at the same time high-spirited and
gentle, with forms that are the very ideal of equine grace and beauty.
Round bodies, arching necks, small heads and limbs, large eyes and
nostrils, with full mane and tail. Lahore is a place of more than usual
interest to the traveler, as exhibiting much of the peculiar and inner
life of India. We were particularly attracted by public and, private
flower-gardens, fruit orchards, and ornamental trees, disposed in such
an excellent manner as to give the general effect of a finely and
naturally-wooded country; and yet we were told that before the English
took possession and built up the European quarter, Lahore was only a
city surrounded by sterile fields, and absolutely without a tree,
ornamental or otherwise, within its extended borders. The orchards and
gardens referred to are those of European residents. Among the exotics
we observed the Australian gum-tree and the Chinese tallow-tree, large
and thrifty in both instances. Lahore was also the only place in India
where we saw mulberry-tree orchards. Like Delhi, the city presents many
evidences of its former splendor, with ruins still architecturally grand
and beautiful, though rapidly mouldering to dust.

We heard of excellent educational results growing out of missionary
efforts at Lahore, and it is really in this direction that the most good
will be accomplished. As regards religious converts, they are few and
far between, and of very little account when apparently made; but in
cultivating the intelligence of the people, a great and good work is
being performed, one which must eventually shake the fabric of heathen
mythology to its very centre. An idolatrous people must come from the
ranks of ignorance,--from a priest-ridden race. When the Hindoo is
capable of thinking and reasoning for himself, he no longer believes in
the idol-gods of his fathers. The preaching of this or that special
faith is of little avail, and to us seems to be the least of all
missionary work. The true object is comprised in the single effort of
enlightenment. Education is the great Christianizer for India. People of
cult