Where Half The World Is Waking Up / The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

by Clarence Hamilton Poe

A HINDU FAQUIR.

The faquirs do not like to be photographed, and this follow in the upper picture was snapped just in the act of rising from his bed of spikes. This is only one of many methods of self-torture practised in the hope of winning the favor of the gods.

SOME FASHIONABLE HINDUS.

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