Aleister Crowley Diary Entry

Tuesday, 28 January 1902

 

 

Bandobast completed.

     

Train to Prome [Burma].

     

Engaged Peter, a Madrassee boy at Rs. 1.8. per diem and warm clothes. Advanced Rs. 10 pay and Rs. 5. for exes.

 

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On the 25th [?] January we left by train for Prome late at night. We took one servant, named Peter, a Madrasi boy. I asked him his religion, and he said that he was “a free man, a Roman Catholic.” Some people’s ideas of freedom are peculiar. Needless to say, he was a scoundrel of the first water.

 

[Vanity Fair - 3 February 1909]