Temple and Car of Juganath, Puri' tinted lithograph, James Fergusson (artist) and Thomas Colman Dibdin (lithographer), in Fergusson 1848--Of the "festivities" at the site, Fergusson wrote: "so much has been written about their horror. of the hundreds of dead and dying pilgrims that strew the road, and of their bones that whiten the plains . I was most agreeably disappointed to find the pilgrims hurrying to the spot, talking and laughing like people going to a fair in England, which in fact, it is. . I looked out everywhere for pilgrims skull to examine his bump of veneration, and keep it as a curiosity if I found it large, but neither skulls nor bones were to be found anywhere that I could see" (1848, pg. 26).

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