It is not often that the jugglers show their best tricks to the whites--they know that, as a rule, we are altogether skeptical; but I have seen at native courts more than once the most astounding things--things absolutely incomprehensible and inexplicable.

I don't suppose we are going to see anything of that sort tonight, though Mrs.Hunter said in her note that they had heard from the native servant that this man was a famous one.
"There is a sect of people in India, I don't mean a caste, but a sort of secret society, who, I believe, claim to be able by some sort of influence to suspend altogether the laws of nature.

I do not say that I believe them--as a scientific man, it is my duty not to believe them; but I have seen such things done by some of the higher class of jugglers, and that under circumstances that did not seem to admit of the possibility of deception, that I am obliged to suspend my judgment, which, as you may imagine, my dear, is exceedingly annoying to me; but some of them do possess to a considerable extent what the Scotch call second sight, that is to say, the power of foreseeing events in the future.

Of that I am morally certain; I have seen proofs of it over and over again.

For example, once an old fakir, whom I had cured of a badly ulcerated limb, came up just as I was starting on a shooting expedition.
"'Do not go out today,' he said.