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...located in the midst of a big tropical garden, brilliant with bloom. It is called the [Adygar?] library. We entered a large hall used for assemblies. We found the secretary, an intelligent, nice Parsee, dressed in European white linen suit, with bare feet on sandal soles. Here we learned what theosophy is, and that they have 23,000 paying members. The officers give their tim. this gentleman gives all his income except that needed for his family to the work of secretary. The libary has a rich collection of books, hand written on palm leaves in [illegible] and Sanscrit. A group of fat, sleek, bare bodied Brahmins were classifying...