Missouri Botanical Garden PETER H. RAVEN LIBRARY Pagination Note: Since many of the items lack a specific page number, the page number dispiayed oniine refers to the sequentiaily created number each item was given upon cataloging the materials. /JV£f/A AND ITS NATIVE PRINCES. it should afterward continue to revolve, without any new impetus, and perform these alternate maneuvers for several seconds, is the inexplicable point. Our traveler attent- ively examined both the stick and the top, but could discover no trace of mechanical contrivance. These jugglers have a number of secret artifices of this description, which gain them, among the Indians, a reputation for sor- cery that proves greatly to their advantage. The acrobats go through all the feats familiar to Europeans at home, such as swinging on the trapeze, climbing and balancing poles, etc. ; but that which consists in receiving on the shoulder a ball of stone of great weight dropped from a very considerable height. without the juggler appearing at all hurt, was most astonishing. Religious mendicants of all sorts, each of whom has his special avocation, are little less notable than these jugglers. One ex- cites the pity of the public by showing him- self in the streets entirely naked, or covered only with a coating of ashes ; another shows proudly his arm, which sticks up bare and emaciated, the nails having grown through the hand ; while a number of them stand in the bazaars and sell amulets and charms, and ply many other lucrative trades. But every season there is at least one fakir, who con- trives, by some novel trick, to make him- self the lion of these religious circles. The year M. Rousselet visited Jeypoor, it was a Hiai 01 234567 89 10 Missouri . . . Botanical cm copyright reserved garden Goussain, and this was the method by which he succeeded in making himself famous. One morning some peasants who were com- ing into the town saw, near M. Rousselet’s bungalow, at the cross-roads from the Resi- dency, a holy man occupied in tying several thick ropes to the branch of a tree over- hanging the road ; and great was their as- tonishment when they saw the Goussain place his feet in two slip knots, and then, having stretched himself on the ground, haul himself up gently by means of a third rope, until he was suspended by the feet, like a calf in a slaughter-house. In the course of an hour a vast crowd surrounded the fakir, who, still in the same position, tranquilly mumbled his prayers, while tell- ing his beads. After hanging in this man- ner for several hours, he let himself down and returned to the town, escorted by a crowd of enthusiasts. On the morrow he returned to the same spot, to go again through the same performance. M. Rous- selet went there with several Europeans, and cm copyright reserved garden HENRY DIERS, apothecary, h Knst (’orricr luflli aud Biddle Streets, W’ssoum n QEORSE F -■CAl. garden '■AfJ-N PAPEES’ Botanical cm copyright reserved garden 508 Lejjingwell Avenue, 0 1 cm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 copyright reserved F. EJVGLEMAJf, M.D., 3003 Locust Street. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 Missouri Botanical cm copyright reserved garden JV. TF. Corner Easton and Garrison .due’s. M'SSPURl BOTANlCRt GEORGE GARCeW Papebs BoTAN ICAL cm copyright reserved garde Co5o 1 ^, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical cm copyright reserved garden &OSI cm copyright reserved g°vr^d'^e^n '■ ;■ , ■'-, FV. ■m^ g!— ! ._ !— Ll — M— .LJ«J w 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical cm copyright reserved garden 6^Rt)es papers 6 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical copyright reserved garden /U-^ ^ A ^3vC><>U^ >^.^V .)^'i^'*^-'n y T^tfA^ . ^ cm 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 copyright reserved ^oS-3 CM- QEQRGE 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cm copyright reserved 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 cm copyright reserved fa41M4©llS104i! SaiMISf* go. 301 South gifth Street, Sor. Myrtle, ST. LOUIS. I a fiV.SSOUR' gslOESS BOtftWCM a».R's-«^ 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical copyright reserved garden 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cm copyright reserved /So rf Botanical cm copyright reserved garden //TjV ■■■ V2:? 6 7 8 9 10 Missouri Botanical copyright reserved garden 6os:6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 cm copyright reserved 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Missouri , Botanical cm copyright reserved garden . / ■ i CP^-^xJt