WATER CARRIERS.
The natives of India carry water long distances in a couple of leathern bags prepared for the purpose and hung across a bullock; the behishtī, or water-carrier, by the side of the stream, is filling the skins from his mashk, or water-bag, and another man is bringing up his leathern bag for the same purpose.
An Hindū girl is taking down a large net to the fisherman in the river, where he has just spread his own net. On the top of his head a small basket is fixed, into which he puts whatever he may catch; and floating on the water, attached to his waist by a long string, is a gharā, an earthen vessel, also used as a depository for the fish.
The oolāk is floating timber to Calcutta, secured to her by ropes over the side. She is ornamented by a border of impressions of the human hand in white paint on the side of the stern, and has also an eye painted on each side of her bows; which the Hindūs, like the Chinese, consider necessary, to enable the spirit of the vessel to see its way upon the waters.
