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they all saw that, although the Goussain had
then been suspended by the feet for some
hours, his face was calm, that he spoke with-
out difficulty, and certainly appeared to feel
no inconvenience; when they asked him
how he had managed to accustom himself
to that position, he answered that God had
given him this power as an evidence of his
sanctity. Of course it would have been
difficult to obtain any other explanation.
For more than a month this holy man re-
mained thus suspended like a ham during
the greater part of each morning, and gained
by it a good round sum. The rajah, how-
ever, never came to see him.

Still another type of these religious en-
thusiasts and beggars M. Rousselet en-
countered at Bhopaul. These fakirs go
about entirely naked, except a strip of
cloth around their loins, and announce
their presence by a series of lamentable
cries while they dance a mournful kind of
dance. In the midst of their contortions
they brandish about long, sharp poniards
of peculiar shape and ornamented with little
charms of steel. From time to time one of
these enthusiasts thrusts the poniard into his
body, for the most part striking his chest,
his arms, or his thighs. He keeps up these
stabs until, to calm his apparent madness,
the by-standers have thrown him a goodly
number of coin. These unfortunates, stream-
ing with blood, were hideous to look upon,
and M. Rousselet’s sympathies with them
were excited not a little until Houssein

Khan, who accompanied him, satisfied him
that the daggers which they flourished so
furiously, and which they thrust into them-
selves so recklessly, were purposely so made
with rounded points that it was almost im-
possible for them to inflict serious wounds.
Besides, the fakirs were careful to strike
themselves always in parts which were not
vital, and the wounds they made were sel-
dom more than skin deep.

A much more pleasing performance, and
one which might perhaps better have been
mentioned in connection with the exploits
of the jugglers, is the “ egg dance.” This
is not, as one might expect from the name
given it, a dance upon these fragile objects.
It is executed in this wise: The dancer,
dressed in a corsage and very short skirt,
carries a willow wheel of moderate diameter
fastened horizontally upon the top of her
head. Around this wheel threads are fast-
ened, equally distant from each other, and
at the end of each of these threads is a slip
noose, which is kept open by a glass bead.
Thus equipped, the young girl comes toward
the spectators with a basket full of eggs,
which she passes around for inspection to
prove that they are real, and not imitations.
The music strikes up a jerky, monotonous
strain, and the dancer begins to whirl around
with great rapidity. Then, seizing an egg,
she puts it in one of the slip nooses, and,
with a quick motion, throws it from her in
such a way as to draw the knot tight. The
swift turning of the dancer produces a centrif-

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ugal force which stretches the thread out
straight like a ray shooting from the circum-
ference of the circle. One after another the
eggs are thrown out in these slip nooses
until they make a horizontal aureole or halo
about the dancer’s head. Then the dance
becomes still more rapid, so rapid in fact
that it is difficult to distinguish the features
of the girl ; the moment is critical ; the least
false step, the least irregularity in time, and
the eggs dash against each other. But how
can the dance be stopped ? There is but
one way, — that is, to remove the eggs in the
way in which they have been put in place.

This operation is by far the more delicate of
the two. It is necessary that the dancer, by
a single motion, exact and unerring, should
take hold of the egg, and remove it from
the noose. A single false motion of the
hand, the least interference with one of the
threads, and the general arrangement is
suddenly broken, and the whole performance
disastrously ended. At last all the eggs are
successfully removed ; the dancer suddenly
stops, and without seeming in the least diz-
zied by this dance of twenty-five or thirty
minutes, she advances to the spectators with
a firm step, and presents them the eggs.

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