'I cannot understand him, but I want that picture.

He is a better artist than I.Ask him if he will sell it.' 'He says "No, sar,"' the Babu replied.

The lama, of course, would no more have parted with his chart to a casual wayfarer than an archbishop would pawn the holy vessels of his cathedral.

All Tibet is full of cheap reproductions of the Wheel; but the lama was an artist, as well as a wealthy Abbot in his own place.
'Perhaps in three days, or four, or ten, if I perceive that the Sahib is a Seeker and of good understanding, I may myself draw him another.
But this was used for the initiation of a novice.

Tell him so, hakim.' 'He wishes it now--for money.' The lama shook his head slowly and began to fold up the Wheel.