The Adventures of Dr. Callas

Dr. Callas started off in his litter at seven a.m., but I did not start till an hour later, as I had wanted to see everything off. Then went up to visit the nunnery, over which the lady abbess showed me. There were thirty nuns living there, all with shorn heads and wearing a curious wool headdress. A place where they worshipped was full of prayer wheels both large and small. They sat down behind these, and each nun turned one or two of them if they could manage it. In another room there was a large prayer wheel, which they said contained half a million prayers. After leaving the nunnery we jogged along a dry