The Kansas herald of freedom. [volume] (Wakarusa, Kan. Territory) 1854-1860, 1859-06-18
Marvellous Story.

An English paper tells the following
story, which is certainly most wonder
full, if true:
There is a man, very strange man,
among the Sikhs of India, Fakir or Fa-
queer, too, one who gains his livelihood
by putting on the appearance of death,
and suffering himself to be buried for
three, six, or twelve months, according to
the agreement and compact he enters
into with his employers. This man, far
from being misdoubted in those parts, or
being treated as a mountebank, is held in
extraordinary respect and veneration by
the Sikh people. The stories that are
told Of this man are truly wonderful, and
try to sift the matter how you will, the
marvel only increases. Both natives and
Europeans are alike perplexed; every
one in the East has heard of his extraor-
binary powers; every means that the
skeptical could employ has been tried to
detect the imposture which has been sus-
pected but still his credit remains un-
shaken to the last.
One of those who have witnessed his
prodigious feat, is Captain W., the polit-
ical agent at Loodianah, who stood by
when he was disinterred after a burial of
ten consecutive months, and his body
seemed then, as it had seemed at first, to
be in state of suspended animation. In
this country it was thought a most won-
derful thing, and very justly, when, a
dozen years ago, young Irishman al
lowed himself to be locked up in cham
Der for three weeks, and seals to be placed
on the door and window, and agreed to
stay there in that confinement without
meat or drink. This feat, as far as could
be seen, he did perform according to the
attestation of several medical gentlemen,
writers for newspapers, and Others.
But look at the difference. In the case
of this Indian, instead of the confinement
in a spacious room, the body is put into q
bag; the body is tied up and sealed with
several seals by men of credit and dis.
tinction. Then it is put into box, and
the seals are again applied to that box
This, one would suppose, were tes
enough in all conscience. Not at all the
box is put into stone grave or vault
then over that vault the earth is com
| pletely thrown, and grain is sown in tbs
| very sod which covers the living body o
this bold and marvellous experimentalist
Reader, do you marvel? What thinl
! you of this |? If this be really acunnins
man, who fences with the sharp eyes, ant
looks, and thoughts of FIVE millions o
Apeople, and does this for fifteen or twenty
years without being caught tripping, i
cannot be denied he does his feat in
very workmanlike manner. Buried 70
twelve months under ground, with COR
growing over his bodyl How is he Il
enter into collision with his confederate
in the trick, if trick there be ? Men o
; the highest rank. doubtful of his power
4 land among these the celebrated Run
! jeet Singh, have seen him buried at tn
q commencement and have afterwards beel
present whom the body was taken UP
after q; suspended animation Of twelv
~ months continuance. As far Is all hu
! man observation could 60, that extrsor
binary man had lived without food, with
out drink, without air, for the space Q
one entire year, and there he was at tn
end Of this singular experiment alive agai
and hearty. 2lF s
This wonderful man is now ebout fol
d ty-fyeyeam old, and enjoys al the rud