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196,
Story of an Emigrant.
holv river. During this journey the Fakir is surrounded and
followed bv a large concourse of j>eople who furnish him
with food and drink, and regard him as a saint. There are
instances of men having traveled over five hundred miles in
this manner. Every day and hour the crowd was increased
by new arrivals, until the river banks, the fields and roads
swarmed with countless masses,— a most wonderful
gathering. Thousands of Brahmins offered their services to guide
fakirs.
and bless the pilgrims, most always for a valuable
consideration ; thousands of peddlers sold small idols, flower
wreaths, rosaries, and other sacred objects at high prices;
others peddled rice, fruit, thin bread and other provisions,
and thousands of barbers cut the hair and shaved the
temples of the pilgrims. There, in the shade of some mango trees
a Hindoo prince had gone into camp with his elephants,
horses, soldiers and servants, the retinue consisting of about
two hundred people; and yonder in the shadelcss valley
is a camp of a thousand or more Fakirs huddled together.
M any are cntirelv naked, others are protected bv a few
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