100 WONDERS OF ORGANIC LIFE. 



peculiarity in so remarkable a degree, that his 

 companions in the transport were in the con- 

 stant habit of amusing themselves at his ex- 

 pense. They could produce in him any kind 

 of dream, by whispering in his ear, especially 

 if this were done by a voice with which he -was 

 familiar. At one time they conducted him 

 through the whole progress of a quarrel which 

 ended in a duel, and when the parties were 

 supposed to be met, a pistol was put into his 

 hand, which he fired, and was awakened by 

 the report. On another occasion, they found 

 him asleep on the top of a locker, in the cabin, 

 when they made him believe he had fallen 

 overboard, and exhorted him to save himself 

 by swimming. He immediately imitated all the 

 motions of swimming. They then told him that 

 a shark was pursuing him, and entreated him 

 to dive for his life. He instantly did so, with 

 such force as to throw himself entirely from the 

 locker upon the cabin floor, by which he was 

 much bruised, and awoke of course. A re- 

 markable circumstance in this case was that, 

 after these experiments, he had no distinct 

 recollection of his dreams, but only a confused 

 feeling of oppression or fatigue, and used to tell 

 his friends that he was sure they had been 

 playing some trick upon him. Here we have 

 wakefulness of mind, voluntary muscular mo- 

 tion, a scene acted out, and forgetfulness of the 

 whole on being roused to perfect consciousness. 

 Contrast this with the following dream of a long 

 series' p r transactions which flashed insta?i- 



