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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLIX
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Meantime, the data will be arranged by those people who have charge of all such matters, the great chief Brahmins.

It will be like shutting down a mint.

At a first glance it looks most unbrahminically uncommercial, but I am not disturbed, being soothed and tranquilized by their reputation.

"Brer fox he lay low," as Uncle Remus says; and at the judicious time he will spring something on the Indian public which will show that he was not financially asleep when he took the Ganges out of the market.
Great numbers of the natives along the roads were bringing away holy water from the rivers.

They would carry it far and wide in India and sell it.


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