‘The Native Christians not unfrequently subscribe to give a parting gift to a Missionary whom they love, when starting for England; but I suppose they thought that, in my case, if they waited for that they would never give me anything, and that it was no harm to present me with something for _not_ going away! Mr. K. was rather astonished at the wild bhajans, which he declares are all on one note--but that is a mistake--but he says that they helped to cure his earache; a very curious and novel effect, which I never knew before to belong to a bhajan!...