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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.

holy writings, and if I could make them out I would try for perfection myself. I gave him a copy of Huckleberry Finn. I thought it might rest him up a little to mix it in along with his meditations on Brahma, for he looked tired, and I knew that if it didn't do him any good it wouldn't do him any harm.

श्री १०८ मत्परमहंसपरिब्राजकाचार्य्य
स्वामि भास्करानन्दसरस्वति शिष्य
मीनबाहादुरराणानैपालीमहाशय।

PAGE FROM BAHADUR'S BOOK.
Sri 108 matparamahansaparivrajakacharyaswamibhaskaranandasaraswati, sishya mina Bahadur Rana
page from bahadur's book.

He has a scholar meditating under him—Mina Bahadur Rana—but we did not see him. He wears clothes and is very imperfect. He has written a little pamphlet about his master, and I have that. It contains a wood-cut of the master and himself seated on a rug in the garden. The portrait of the master is very good indeed. The posture is exactly that which Brahma himself affects, and it requires long arms and