1 doubt of the reality of the performance. The. minister, Jiujali
2 Dhyan Sing, assured me, that he himself kept tins faqueer
3 (whose name was Ha ricks) four months under the ground,
4 when he was at Jummoo in the mountains. On the day of his
5 burial, he ordered his beard to be shaved, and at his exhuma¬
6 tion his chin was as smooth as on the day of his interment ,
7 thus furnishing a complete proof of the powers of vitality
8 having been suspended during that period. He likewise caused
9 himself to be interred at J'esrota, in the mountains, and at
10 Umritsir, and also by the English in Hindustan. In the
11 Calcutta Medical Journal about 1835, there is a full description
12 of the faqueer, and we are there informed, that lie preferred
13 having the chest in which he was enclosed, suspended in the
14 air, instead of its firing buried beneath the earth, as he feared
15 the possibility of his body being attacked by ants, whilst in
16 that middle stu e between life and death. Having, how, " .-,
17 refused to undergo another trial, several of tile English peopb
18 there doubted the truth of the story, and refused credence in «<>
19 astonishing a power* But it is quite certain that had there
20 been any deception as regards the interment of the faqueer,
21 rendering his expo intent easy of accomplishment, those engaged
22 or associated with him, and to whom the task of restoring the
23 vital energies vas necessarily entrusted, would of necessity be
24 acquainted with the mystery, and able, since his real decease, to
25 emulate his example ; that, however, is not the case. It appears,
26 consequently, that the faqueer was the only one then in possession
27 of that;ability; and as a further corroboration of this view of
28 the case, I may mention that 1 myself inquired in the Punjab,
29 in the mountains and valleys of Cashmere, and in otbci !'■ ! * s
30 of India, and used every exertion to find a person possessed
31 of this power, in order to bring him to Europe, or at least, to
32 Calcutta, but without success. Several Hindoos told me dial
33 such faqueers set no value upon money; I replied to them
34 . tv, corroborate the shove, my rn/Iera ran refer to General V. nture (Pons).
35 , n ,l al,.. to Colonel Sir C. M. Wade 'London), who were present, and
36 assisted at vhe restoration of tn.e faipjcev,gome -recount* of warn,, have beta
37 published from the Colonel’* statement.