1 of llie«nn-p'ts. It in said that the faqueer in question, a few (lavs
2 -previous to his experiments, took some kind of purgative, and
3 subsisted for several days on a coarse milk regimen. On the day
4 of his burial, instead of food, lie -lowly swallowed, in the pre-.enc -
5 of the assembly, a rag of three Ungers in breadth and thirty
6 yards in length, and afterwards extracted it, for the purpose rtf
7 removing alt foreign matters front die stomach, having previously
8 rinsed the bowels in the manner I have before mentioned.
9 Ridiculous ns this operation may appear to the raider, and as it
10 appears, indeed, to me also, yet these artists must of necessity be
11 complete musters of their body and its organism, end possess a
12 more than ordinary power over the muscles. We arc .scarcely
13 capable of swallowing a somewhat long piec ■ of nriaocaioni if it
14 is not well boikxl and moistened with butter, k-c., to render it
15 palatable. It is probable, however, that they may have lo t th6
16 sense of taste, and their neck-muscles maybe relaxed to such a
17 degree that the lung linen strip does not meet with any resistance
18 in the. throat. These preparations being made, the faqueer
19 stopped all the natural openings in the body with plug- of
20 aromatic wax, placed back his tongue in the manner I have
21 before indicated, crossed his arms over his breast, and thus suthr¬
22 oated bine if, in the presence of a multitude of spectators. On
23 his exhumation, one of the first operations is to draw hi- tongue
24 into its natural position; after this, a warm aromatic paste,made
25 from pulse meal, is placed on his head, and air is injected into
26 his lungs and also through the ears, from which the plugs are
27 withdrawn. By this operation, the pellets in die nostrils are
28 driven out with considerable force and noise, and this is con¬
29 sidered the first symptom of his resuscitation. Friction is then
30 strenuously applied all over tie- body, and at length he begins to
31 breathe naturally, opens his eyes, and is gradually restored to
32 . consciousness. It is related that, two hundred and fifty years
33 ago, in the time of the (Jooroo Arjun Sing, a Joglu.e fuqueer
34 was found in his tomb in a sitting posture, at Umritsir, ami was
35 restored to life This faqueer is report'd to have been below the