Red Lamas are not so common in Hind that one loses track.' 'Babus are very curious,' said Lurgan meditatively.

'Do you know what Hurree Babu really wants?
He wants to be made a member of the Royal Society by taking ethnological notes.

I tell you, I tell him about the lama everything which Mahbub and the boy have told me.

Hurree Babu goes down to Benares--at his own expense, I think.' 'I don't,' said Creighton briefly.

He had paid Hurree's travelling expenses, out of a most lively curiosity to learn what the lama might be.
'And he applies to the lama for information on lamaism, and devil-dances, and spells and charms, several times in these few years.
Holy Virgin! I could have told him all that yeears ago.