1 4'** HISTORY OF THE SIKHS,
2 ance he did when lus box was opened. However
3 childish all this may appear, the explanation was
4 (juite satisfactory to the good people of Lahore,
5 and even to some who pretended to greater depth
6 of reasoning powers. The sarpe individual has, i
7 believe, exhibited with success at Jesselmere, an
8 account o! which is given in Lieutenant {Soileau's
9 work lately published. The fukeer is a mail about
10 forty years of age, mild and intelligent in his de¬
11 portment, and ready to answer all questions put to
12 him on the subject. He describes his trance as it.
13 niost delightful one, and does not scruple to say,
14 that he enjoys it much ; the only wonder is, that
15 he does not prolong it. On asking him the place
16 oi his birth, he said he believed it was Kunkul, a
17 village close to Hurdwar,.and famous for i'ukeers of
18 all denominations. He considers his being able to
19 perform the feat as a gift from God, and he is not
20 sure that it can be taught. It was observed by
21 some of the bystanders, that his beard exhibited
22 the same appearance after disinterment, as on the
23 day he had been shut up; though J do not attach
24 much weight to this circumstance, as the man’s
25 beard did not seem to be of the bushy kind, nor
26 even to grow at all; the latter is the case with
27 many Europeans, as well as Natives. Enough has
28 been said on this subject, and were there anything
29 to induce a belief, (except the difficulty of finding
30 out the deception) in the man’s assertions, the cir¬
31 cumstance might deserve the consideration of the
32 learned ; as it is, there is little chance of its exciting