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Some of the great gray cranes with red necks were dancing.  The dance was complicated & novel.  They walked straight with out-spread wings first, then took [[strikethrough]] hi [[/strikethrough]] several high steps & whirled about in a circle.  The steps & movements were like a ballet. 
[[circled]] 5 [[/circled]]  At 10 A.M. I took a trolley ride to the Kaligat  temple, a hindu shrine on the banks of a canal south of the Maidan.  Here I saw great numbers of hindus, [[symbol: male]] & [[symbol: female]] & children.  One of the common sacrifices is beheading a goat, the blood of which lies in pools on the stone floor.  At the bank of the canal were many men & women bathing, a duty performed before worship.