CHINESE JUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 733, 2 April 1881, Page 2

CHINESE JUGGLING EXTRAORDINARY.

Old Ibn Batata, of ; Aleppo, the we® lmown Moorish , traveller, whose gravity) Veracity, and intelligence are undisputed' and-whose wanderings in India, China; and other countries of the 'far East are still quoted as the best':evidence fqrtha manners and customs of thoso between about 1340 and when at the .corn! of the Kb ansa in China, he was exhibition of jugglers held m courtyard. The performer which a long thong was threw tlie ball up in the air so it went out of sight altogether, of the end of the thong hand. He then desired who assisted; him to lay. thong and mount. He did out of sight also I The„ called to him three times, and answer'he snatched up a' knife,' great rage, laid hold of the disappeared also. By-and-bye down one of the boy's hands,/ then the other hand, then foot, then the trunk, and head I Then he came down puffing and panting; with his clotheSH bloody, Mssed the ground before thr Viceroy, and said something to him in Chinese. The Viceroy gave some order: in reply, and the performer placing the,, lad's limbs together gave them a kick,' then the boy got up and stood before the - company. "All this," says old Ibn Batu-i ta, " astonished me beyond measure, and I had an attack of palpitation like that which overcame me once before in the presence of the Sultan of India, when he showed me something of the same kind."