Besides climbing with bare feet a ladder whose rungs were sharp-edged swords, and lying on a bed of nail points with four men seated upon him, he curled himself up in a barrel, through whose inner edges nails projected, and was rolled about the stage at a rapid rate.

Emerging from thence uninjured, he gracefully bows himself off the stage.
Some individuals claim immunity from burns and show many interesting feats in handling fire.

As they are nothing but skilful "fire jugglers" they deserve no mention here.

The immunity of the participants in the savage fire ceremonies will be discussed in Chapter IX.
Albinism is characterized by the absolute or relative absence of pigment of the skin, due to an arrest, insufficiency, or retardation of this pigment.

Following Trelat and Guinard, we may divide albinism into two classes,--general and partial.
As to the etiology of albinism, there is no known cause of the complete form.