Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-11-18
Extraordinary Account Of an East
India Juggler, i

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The impression entertained by
the author that the totalIcessation Of
of bodily action, internal or external.
which is usually the Accompaniment
ofdeath, is not its inaliblc token
nor inseparably accompanied by it
is countenanced by the very curious
performance Of the celebrated Hindoe
lfalleer, mentioned by the Honorable
Captain Osborne in his wbrk upon the
Court and Camp Of fRunjRet Singh, as
having allowed himself Ito be buried
in chest ynder the ground at Lahore,
and as having been brought up again
to life, when disinterred at the end
Of forty days, Capt. Osborne appears
in the first instance not to suspect
the real occurrence of thetf fact, extra
ordina ary as it was; but he states that
ON the proposition beingIhade to the
fakee1, that he should beburied again
in similar manner for one week, with
the conditions that the chest he was
enclosed in should have two pa1locks,
the key Of one of which should be in
Captain Os borne's keeping, and that
the place of his intermelt' should be
watched bd sentries from the guard
by which t be English embassy was
attended, b E objected to the proposed
arrang cement, and declined to make
the trial on such terms Captain Os-
borne adds, however, that shortly af-
terwafds the fakeer sent to signify bis
-conseh ht to what had been proposed to
him; but that his consent being ac-
companied by the declaration that be
was sure theoGect of the English Off
GERS V 9as to. destroy him, the latter
did not think themselves justified in
being parties to an experiment which
they thought certain to prove fatal.
The following statement Of the ei;-
cumstances attendant on the previous
inter1hent Of the flkeer spoken Of by
Captain Osborne, has been kindly
comm unicated to me by Sir Claude
NJ Wade, then political resident at
Ldodianah, and chief agent of the
English Government at Runjeet
Sibgh's Court, with permission to in
seFtit here. Th e well known ability
and character of Sir G. Wade not on
" guaranty the certainty Of the in
cidents which his account relates, but
gives great force and weight to the
conclusion which he appears to baye
come to, viz: tina It however hard to
explain the eau Bes or means Of the
fakeer's extraordinary performance,
there is no reason to doubt its reali-
ty.
i / was present at the Court Of Run
ieet Singh at Lahore, in 1887, when
the fakeer m entioned by the Honor
able Captain Osborne wasburied alive
for six weeks and although / arrived
a few hours a Fter his actual interment
and did not G bnsequently witness this
part of the phenomenon, ! had the
testimony Of IRunjeet + Singh himsf flf
and Others, tile most credible witness
es of his Court, to the truth Of the
fakeer having been SO buried before
them, and from having been present
myself when he was disinterred- and
restored to state Of perfect vitality,
lin position so close to him as to
render any deception impossible,it is
my firm belief that there was no col
msion ia producing the extraordinary
fact which ] have related. Captain
Osborne book is not present be-
fore me, that l might refer to such
part of his account as deEolves the
authenticity of the fact Oh my au-
therity. I viii, however, briefly
state what saw, to enable Others to
Judge Of the weight due to my evi-
dence, and whether, from the tenor
of ii, any proofs Of collqslOn can can' IN
their opinion, be detected.
On the approach of the appointed
time, according to invitation, LAGOON,
panied Runjeet Singht to the spot
where the fakeer had beenlHburled;--
It was a square building, called II
the language Of the country, a Barra
Duryee. IN the midst of one of the gar.
dens adjoining the palace 1t Lahore
With an omen yerandah all around
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