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{{Footnote return|60}} Colonel Olcott arrived at Bombay bearing official credentials from the U.S. Government as a Commercial Commissioner. | {{Footnote return|60}} Colonel Olcott arrived at Bombay bearing official credentials from the U.S. Government as a Commercial Commissioner. | ||
{{Footnote return|61}} Symbol for Master Narayan. | |||
{{Footnote return|62}} Words in a script that has not been identified. | |||
{{Footnote return|63}} Symbol for an Adept whom H.P.B. went to meet at “The Battery,” a point in New York harbor. | |||
{{ | {{Footnote return|64}} Word illegible. | ||
{{Footnote return|65}} Symbol for either an Adept or a Lodge. | |||
{{Footnote return|66}} Symbol for Master Narayan. The incident about calling him “old horse” is related by Col. Olcott in | |||
''Old'' Diary ''Leaves'', Vol. I, pp. 247-48. | |||
{{Footnote return|67}} Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), the famous inventor and scientist, who became a member of the | |||
T.S. | |||
{{Footnote return|68}} As far as is known, this photograph must have been brought to Bombay when the Founders went to | |||
India. | |||
{{Footnote return|69}} Name undecipherable. | |||
{{Footnote return|70}} As the facsimile shows, there is over this entry a large symbol in red pencil, an arrow pointing down | |||
to a circle containing a cross, and {{Page aside|440}}the signature of Master Narayan at the side. “''Consummatum est''” (It is finished, or accomplished) is written | |||
in large letters, in blue pencil, and underlined. It is not certain whether these two words are in H.P.B.’s | |||
handwriting or not. | |||
{{Footnote return|71}} A reporter writing in the New York ''Sun'' of December 19, 1878, had this to say: “Charles in the meantime had been sent to a good Theosophist’s house, but had disappeared from the basket ''in transitu'', and has not been seen since. ‘I don’t know where he is,’ said the Hierophant [H. S. Olcott], ‘but I presume we will find him in Bombay when we get there’.” | |||
{{Footnote return|72}} The words “took leave of the chandelier” are underlined in blue. | |||
{{Footnote return|73}} Most likely Master Serapis. | |||