'No; I am Kim.

This is the great world, and I am only Kim.

Who is Kim ?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam.

He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate.
Presently the Colonel sent for him, and talked for a long time.

So far as Kim could gather, he was to be diligent and enter the Survey of India as a chain-man.