Page:The People of India — a series of photographic illustrations, with descriptive letterpress, of the races and tribes of Hindustan Vol 8.djvu/170

BARBERS. festivals and for travellers going on night journeys. The torch is made up of coarse rags, and is as thick as a man's arm, confined at the head a little below the end a stout iron ring, and the end has oil poured upon it from a copper or gourd utensil with a long thin neck. In travelling post, or dak, in a palankeen, torch—men are provided at every stage where night travelling ensues, to light the heaters off their way.