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was the spirit of the Cross, the spirit to suffer for the sake of mankind. Even now, as I contemplate on the figure of that great Savara scholar, my master, Rao Saheb G. V. Ramamurti Pantulu of Parlakimidi, disabled for life through deafness brought about by malaria among the Savaras in the forests, and yet his enthusiasm for Savara studies undiminished, but ever on the increase, I can picture to myself the greatness of the noble band of souls who had, in those early days, when hill and forest life was extremely more dangerous, ventured out on a civilizing mission among people who have been driven into a life of isolated existence, in haunts cut off from the rest of mankind and all the com non amenities that humanity ought to be heir to. Living, as they do, no better than the beasts among whom they dwell, in uncouth and evil-smelling huts which, even for courtesy, cannot be called humid