We were told that the explanation of this was, that this Jain delegation was drawn from many parts of India, and that each man wore the turban that was in vogue in his own region.

This diversity of turbans made a beautiful effect.
I could have wished to start a rival exhibition there, of Christian hats and clothes.

I would have cleared one side of the room of its Indian splendors and repacked the space with Christians drawn from America, England, and the Colonies, dressed in the hats and habits of now, and of twenty and forty and fifty years ago.

It would have been a hideous exhibition, a thoroughly devilish spectacle.

Then there would have been the added disadvantage of the white complexion.