Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-11-18

tIdcetu. Ieulijeet OiiISH tdhiuS III
right and left leg to aid by friction
| in restoring them to their proper ae
ton, during which time the seryan
placed a hot wheaton cake about al
inch thick, On the top of the head
a process which he twice or thrice re
peated. He, then took ont of his nos
lt1ils and eaTs the wax and cottor
plugs with which they were stopped
and after great exertion opened his
mouth by inserting the point of {
knife between his teeth, and while
holding his jaws open with his left
hand, drew the tongue forward with
the forefnger Of the right, in the
course of which the tongue flew back
several times to its curved position
upwards, that in which it had origi-
nally been placed SO as to close the
gpHet. Hethearubbed his eyelids with
ghee Clarified butter) for some time
Until he succeeded in opening them,
when the eye appeared quite motion
less and ghE Eed. After the cake had
been applied fofIthe third time to the
top of the head, the body was con-
yulsively heaved, the nostrils became
violently inflated, respirationensued,
and the limbs began to assume nat
ural fullness;tbut the pulsation was
still only very family perceptible.--
The servant then put some ghee on
his tongue, and made him swallow it.
A few minutes afterwards, the eye
balls becoming slowly dihted, recoy-
cred their natural color, and the fa-
:keer recognizing Runjeet Singh sit
ting close by him, articulated in a low
$epulchral tone scarcely audible, "Do
you believe me noW2"
Runjeet Singh replied .inthe affirm,
ative, and then began, investing the
fakeer with a pearlneoklace, a superb
pair of gold bracelets, shawls and
pieces of silk and muslin, forming
what is called khilet, such as is
usually conferred by the princes Of
India on persons of distinction
From the time Of the box being OPEN
ed to the recovery of the voice, not
more than haitian hour could have
elapsed; and in another half an hour
the fakeer talked with himself and
those about him, freely, though feebly,
like sick person, and We then left
him, convinced that there had been
no fraud or collusion in the exhibi-
ton we had witnessed.
/ was pre- sentalso when the fakeer
was summoned by Runjeet. Singh to
Lahore, from a considerable distance,
some months afterwards, to again bu-
ry himself alive before Capt. Osborne,
and the officers of the late Sir William
Macnaughten's mission in 1888,
which after the preparation, he offer
ed to do FORA few days; but the term
ofSn William Macnaughten smission
having nearly elapsed, some doubts
were expressed and observations made
by Captain Osborne as to keeping the
key of the room in which he was to
be buried in his possession, which the
fakeer, with the superstitious dread
of an Indian, considered ominous Of
his fate. He became alarmed that
if once he was within Capt. Osborne S
power, he would not escape alive
His refusal on that occasion will nat
uraIly induce a suspicion of the truth
8the transactions as witnessed by
myself; but to those who are we'll ac-
quainted with the character Of the
natives of India, it will not be sur
prisiing that, where life and deathWere
concerned, the fakeer should have
manifested a distrust Of what to him
appeared the mysterious intentions
of an European, who was a perfect
stranger to him, when he was ready
to repose implicit confidence in Run
jeet Singh, myself and Others, before
whom he had exhibited. lam salts
fed that he refused only from the
cause | have mentioned, and that he
would have done for me what he had
declined doing for Captain Osborne.
1t had previously been observed
also by Sir W. Macnaughten and 9th
ers of the party, and very truly tho
iestingly, that if the fakeer should
not have survived the trial to which
he was required to submit, those vhc
might instigate him to it would run
| the risk Of being indicted for murder
which induced them to refrain from
pressing the subject farther. | share
entirely in the apparent incredlbihty
Of the fact of a man being buried
alive, and surviving the trial, after