Kim felt these things , though he could not give tongue to his feelings , and so contented himself with buying peeled sugar-cane and spitting the pith generously about his path . From time to time the lama took snuff , and at last Kim could endure the silence no longer . ` This is a good land -- the land of the South ! ' said he . ` The air is good ; the water is good . Eh ? ' ` And they are all bound upon the Wheel , ' said the lama . ` Bound from life after life . To none of these has the Way been shown . ' He shook himself back to this world . ` And now we have walked a weary way , ' said Kim . ` Surely we shall soon come to a parao -LSB- a resting-place -RSB- . Shall we stay there ? Look , the sun is sloping . ' ` Who will receive us this evening ? ' ` That is all one . This country is full of good folk . Besides ' he sunk his voice beneath a whisper -- ` we have money . ' The crowd thickened as they neared the resting-place which marked the end of their day 's journey . A line of stalls selling very simple food and tobacco , a stack of firewood , a police-station , a well , a horse-trough , a few trees , and , under them , some trampled ground dotted with the black ashes of old fires , are all that mark a parao on the Grand Trunk ; if you except the beggars and the crows -- both hungry .
By this time the sun was driving broad golden spokes through the lower branches of the mango-trees ; the parakeets and doves were coming home in their hundreds ; the chattering , grey-backed Seven Sisters , talking over the day 's adventures , XXXXX back and forth in twos and threes almost under the feet of the travellers ; and shufflings and scufflings in the branches showed that the bats were ready to go out on the night-picket .
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