"It is difficult, however long you stay in India, to get behind these fellows' minds, to understand the thoughts and the motives which move them.

And the longer you stay, the more difficult you realise it to be.

But it looks to me as if Shere Ali had been taken by his companion on a sort of pilgrimage." Linforth started.
"A pilgrimage!" and he added slowly, "I think I understand.

A pilgrimage to all the places which could most inflame the passions of a native against the English race," and then he broke out in protest.

"But it's impossible.