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The same is true of our Lord's words on the cross: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" These are Aramaic words, the very words that Jesus uttered. The Roman soldiers who stood near might not know what he meant; but every Jew who distinctly heard him must have understood him, for he was speaking in no foreign tongue, but in the language of his own people.
It was a four-anna piece, and would feed them well for days. The lama, seeing the flash of the metal, droned a blessing. 'Go thy way, Friend of all the World, piped the old soldier, wheeling his scrawny mount. 'For once in all my days I have met a true prophet who was not in the Army. Father and son swung round together: the old man sitting as erect as the younger.
The Tzurens are mostly old men, skinny, exhausted and severe ascetics. But I have met some who were young, almost boys. They were the Hubilgan, "incarnate gods," the future Hutuktus and Gheghens of the various Mongolian monasteries. The second class is the doctors or "Ta Lama."
As for the Russians, I commit them cheerfully to all the joys of rheumatism. For once every one is up at dawn. A passing lama directs us to a ferry down the river, where we cross by means of a flat-bottomed boat worked by an iron cable. On the other side the men start a fire and we get some hot tea. Again I am struck by the familiar way in which the Russians hobnob with the Mongols.
If it is our fate to find those things we shall find them thou, thy River; and I, my Bull, and the Strong Pillars and some other matters that I forget. 'It is not pillars but a Wheel from which I would be free, said the lama. 'That is all one. Perhaps they will make me a king, said Kim, serenely prepared for anything.
Between the mounted figures are the following on foot: 1. a servant with a basket of fruits; 2. an Arab falconer; 3. a Thibetan lama or priest; 4. another servant with fruit. The Nations of the West represents typical figures from the European nations which have helped to develop America, together with two American Indians and an Alaskan.
'Yonder is a small stream. Let us look, said the lama, and he led from the white road across the fields; walking into a very hornets' nest of pariah dogs. Yea, voice of every Soul that clung To life that strove from rung to rung When Devadatta's rule was young, The warm wind brings Kamakura. Buddha at Kamakura. Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole.
Never was colt held on a lighter heel-rope than thou. Mahbub nodded his head. 'Do not be afraid. Kim spoke as though he could have vanished on the moment. 'My lama has said that he will come to see me at the madrissah 'A beggar and his bowl in the presence of those young Sa 'Not all! Kim cut in with a snort.
The antelope I had knocked over got to its feet and tried desperately to get away, but the lama leaped on his pony and caught it by one hind leg. My automatic pistol was not in working order, and it was necessary to knife the poor beast a job which I hate like poison. The lama walked away a dozen yards and covered his face with the sleeve of his gown.
God help me but I have always looked upon a “grand duke” pretty much in the same light that I have regarded the “Great Lama,” that is to say, a very singular and curious object of worship in its native country.
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