Excerpt from The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ: By the Discoverer of the Manuscript
After the close of the Turko-Russian War (1877 -1878) I undertook a series of extended journeys through the Orient. Having visited all points of interest in the Balkan Peninsula, I crossed the Caucasian Mountains into Central Asia and Persia, and finally, in 1887, made an excursion into India, the most admired country of the dreams of my childhood.
The first object of this journey was to study the customs and habits of the inhabitants of India amid their own surroundings, as well as the grand,...