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THE YOGI ASCETICS OF AHMADABAD 305 ing their offerings. One of the Gioghi, laying aside all other care, remain 'd continually in this chappel with great retiredness and abstraction of mind, scarce ever coming forth, although it was very troublesome abiding there, in regard to the heat of the lights, and incon- venient too, by reason the chappel was so little that it could scarce contain him alone as he sat upon the pavement (which was somewhat rais'd from the Earth)' with his leggs doubled under him and almost crooked. Returning home by the same way of the great Bazar, or Market, I saw carvanserai, or inns, made with cloys- ters like those of Persia; one greater and square of the ordinary form, and another less, narrow and long. Of divers other streets, in which I saw nothing ob- servable, I forbear to speak.'