AN INCOMBUSTIBLE SAINT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6147, 30 July 1881, Page 7

AN INCOMBUSTIBLE SAINT.

A native in India who has never seen a railway will not be easily convinced that the Feringhi has discovered how to convey human beings at the rate of 30 or 40 miles an hour, by merely boiling water in • a certain contrivance on wheels. But tell the same incredulous worthy that one of his holy men has tho power of calling the dead to life, or of flying through the air every night to roost on the summit of gigantic Gungootri, and he. will see nothing out of the way in the strange tale . At the present time there is a fakir at Lucknow about whose miraculous doings the native papers tell tho most astounding stories without any expression of disbelief. ; -His latest exploit was to sit "cool, quiet and perfectly unconcerned," close alongside of an enormous firo. The heat was so great that the crowd of spectators could not approach within 200 yards of the blazing mass, whicl composed of eleven cartloada of bjahl combustible material. The native chronicles the feat asserts, that tho fakir mained "in this interesting nn.hV » 7T? , hours, without taking thSh' f , f °F i course, the fame of tffedW g harra like wildfire, and froni ST I Spread ' ™e pious Hmdoos part3 ,, of Lu incum^ustibkSH^ offering, tomo the-conoou r ; e^ O f if I*'1*' «■ detachmentof-noKrJri a\ Pj'S" ll " tl« spot.' How tL £- to , be(stat; '