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Updated: July 21, 2026

He did attend it too, but it left no such memory as another gathering in the same city; a memory which he knows will last after every other picture of the East has faded from his recollection. The party had reached Allahabad at the time of the Khumb Mela, a vast outpouring of massed humanity too great for any but the merest guesses at its numbers.

Dan B. Brummitt - John Wesley, Jr.: The Story of an Experiment