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PILGRIM WHO MEASURES WITH HIS BODY TWO HUNDRED MILES
| No more striking example of the stern demands of Eastern faiths could be given than this. The pilgrim has vowed to make the journey from Lhasa to a monastery upon the sacred mountain, Everest. This he does by a series of prostrations, lying down, stretching out his hands, rising and standing on the spot they marked, then lying down again, and so for two hundred miles |
WONDERFUL OFFICIAL DRESS OF KANDYAN CHIEFS
| The Kandyan chiefs are naturally handsome men, and their bright brocaded silks and gorgeous velvets impart a right royal stateliness. From sixty to a hundred and fifty yards of silk or muslin are wound round the waist and caught up with a gold-embroidered belt over tight white trousers, ending in a neat frill. The jewel-bedight pincushion hats are surmounted by gold ornaments |