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BELGAON Charles Johnston. Early November 1889.   It was a heartening sight in the approaching twilight, to see the servants and orderlies, aided by It was a heartening sight in the approaching twilight, to see the servants and orderlies, aided by impressed village watchmen, clearing a fair space for the camp, under shady mango trees at the village of Belgaon. They scraped the sandy soil clean, laid on it a thick layer of sweet-smelling rice straw, and spread on this blue-and-white cotton ca...

WHEN THE LEVEE BREAKS   During the second week of August, Johnston was feeling ill. On August 9, 1889, he wrote a letter to his father admitting the

THE PHANTOM PALKI. Charles Johnston. Late November 1889.   I remember a certain camping ground in the cool heart of a mango grove. The lucid air was They were very respectful, nay, deferential, for all their kidnapping, and if I had had some breakfast, say some good coffee and rolls, it would not have been half bad. But I was beastly hungry and getting hungrier. What had become of Punaswami of the scarlet turban, I could not even speculate on.

WHERE VISHNU SLUMBERS IN HIS SEA-GIRT SHRINE ACT III. VI. ⸻ “That so great a mind could not have taken in that splendid teaching of the Sages...” Olcott

DOMOVOY V. ⸻ Blavatsky sat at her desk facing a large window looking which looked into the green leafy trees of Holland Park. Before her, and all around