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of rice, at one of the endowed chut- 

 trums where a meal is provided for 

 strangers, and sauntering up would sit 

 down and engage him in friendly con- 

 versation, watching his opportunity to 

 flick a few datura seeds, unobserved, 

 among the rice, with which they were 

 probably swallowed either unnoticed or 

 passing for grains of the small pulse 

 often sprinkled over curry and rice. 

 Next day the traveller would recover 

 from the effects of the stramonium to 

 find that he had lost everything. 



I sent an account of the episode of 

 the jackal and the remedy used to The 

 Times, but it was not inserted. I also 

 wrote to an eminent London surgeon, 

 detailing the facts of the case, but he 

 replied that there was no proof the 



