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Following the Equator
Part 6

CHAPTER LIII
12/21

He is wholly nude when he receives natives, of whatever rank they may be, but he had white cloth around his loins now, a concession to Mr.Parker's Europe prejudices, no doubt.
As soon as I had sobered down a little we got along very well together, and I found him a most pleasant and friendly deity.

He had heard a deal about Chicago, and showed a quite remarkable interest in it, for a god.
It all came of the World's Fair and the Congress of Religions.

If India knows about nothing else American, she knows about those, and will keep them in mind one while.
He proposed an exchange of autographs, a delicate attention which made me believe in him, but I had been having my doubts before.

He wrote his in his book, and I have a reverent regard for that book, though the words run from right to left, and so I can't read it.

It was a mistake to print in that way.


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