THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST. 137 



( though I dare not suppose there was any connection between 

 the medicine and the disease ) she first drank a little water, 

 then warm broths in small quantities at a time, and nothing 

 else till Palm-Sunday again, twelve months after, when she 

 began to eat bread and other food as she had formerly 

 done ; and the record states that she was then about the 

 age of sixty, and still living in the same place, ready to tes- 

 tify to the truth of the matter ; as were also Thomas White 

 and his wife, who were the only other persons living in the 

 house with her, and who would confidently assert ( for they 

 carefully observed ), that they did not believe she ever took 

 anything whatever in those ten weeks' time, nor anything 

 more than what is before mentioned until the expiration of 

 the year." 



The London Medical and Physical Journal, Vol. XXXV., 

 p. 509, states that : — 



" An account of the sleeping woman of Dunnibald, near 

 Montrose, was read by the Rev. James Brewster, at the 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her first sleeping fit lasted 

 from the 27th to the 30th of June, 1815. Next morning 

 she again fell into a sleep which lasted seven days, without 

 motion, food, or evacuation. At the end of this time, by 

 moving her hand and pointing to her mouth, it was under- 

 stood she wanted food, which was given to her ; but she re- 

 mained in her lathargic state till the 8th of August, six 

 weeks in all, without appearing to be awake, except on the 

 30th of June," ire, &c. This case is well authenticated. 



And in J. N. VVillam's Miscellaneous Works, published by 

 A. Smith, M. D., p. 339, he states that he had seen many, 

 mostly Jews and other aliens, of a dark, swarthy com- 

 plexion, sometimes lie six or eight weeks in the torpid in- 

 sensible condition above described. 



After this digression I will return to my own adventures, 

 having first cited a case in which the remedy called Mumiai, 

 and of which mention has been frequently made in this 

 book, proved very efficaciou''. 



In the time of the Maharajah Sheer Sing, it happened 

 that aa elephant, in spite of all the caution of the driver, 



