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attended by not less than 20,000 Hindus, many coming from far away places and so far as I can learn, I will be the only white present. It will be an event to remember. From Madras I go to Bangalores, Bijapur, Haidarabad and Bombay. From Bombay Northwestward, and from which city I hope to be able to give you an idea of my time and route for leaving India. I also expect to receive at Bombay my first home mail since leaving Paris.

I have gotten entirely over the soreness and little inconveniences of my trip to Adams Peak and physically and mentally fell like a bird. If I had seen Ceylon only I would have felt a hundred times over-paid for the long journey from America. But my introduction to continental India promises to overflow the cup many times. Letters of introduction are quite unnecessary. I have many, but as yet have presented none. And alone is the way to do the thing that I am up to --- for hundreds of reasons.

Of course, I often wish that many of my friends could be with me but I shall advise one and all to come here alone. This will, I fear, sound to you cold and distant but it's neither and it's right as well. 

From Colombo to Tuticorin (some two hundred miles) I had a fearful trip. A terrible north east monsoon struck our ship and things were really mixed for a couple of hours. I was the only white passenger, but the two or three hundred natives on deck suffered fearfully. Not one of them was sicker than I, but I had a cabin and they had none. And after seeing what they went through without one single word of complaint, I would like to have the power to compel the British India S.S.Co. to provide different accommodations. * * * * * * * *
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You are all very well, I trust, and all goes smoothly and happily in Detroit I hope. Give me Pingrer any day rather than some others I know of here. 

Yours ever, 
C.L.F.

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