Meantime , draw his picture . ' The Babu advanced loftily ; his back out of all keeping with his deferential speech , or his wink towards Kim . ` Holy One , these be Sahibs . My medicines cured one of a flux , and I go into Simla to oversee his recovery . They wish to see thy picture -- ' ` To heal the sick is always good . This is the Wheel of Life , ' said the lama , ` the same I showed thee in the hut at Ziglaur when the rain fell . ' ` And to hear thee expound it . ' The lama 's eyes lighted at the prospect of new listeners . ` To expound the Most Excellent Way is good . Have they any knowledge of Hindi , such as had the Keeper of Images ? ' ' A little , maybe . ' Hereat , simply as a child engrossed with a new game , the lama threw back his head and began the full-throated invocation of the Doctor of Divinity ere he opens the full doctrine . The strangers leaned on their alpenstocks and listened . Kim , squatting humbly , watched the red sunlight on their faces , and the blend and parting of their long shadows . They wore un-English leggings and curious girt-in belts that reminded him hazily of the pictures in a book in St Xavier 's library `` The Adventures of a Young Naturalist in Mexico '' was its name . Yes , they looked very like the wonderful M. Sumichrast of that tale , and very unlike the ` highly unscrupulous folk ' of Hurree Babu 's imagining . The coolies , earth-coloured and mute , crouched reverently some twenty or thirty yards away , and the Babu , the slack of his thin gear snapping like a marking-flag in the chill breeze , stood by with an air of happy proprietorship . ` These are the men , ' Hurree whispered , as the ritual went on and the two whites followed the grass-blade sweeping from Hell to Heaven and back again . ` All their books are in the large kilta with the reddish top -- books and reports and maps -- and I have seen a King 's letter that either Hilas or Bunar has written . They guard it most carefully .
They have sent nothing back from XXXXX or Leh .
Hilas Hindi Hurree King Sahibs Ziglaur kilta lama marking-flag un-English