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worked. Occasionally it happens that a hungry 

 brute refuses to be propitiated in any but a 

 men°o'f°the la-tural manner, and it eats the jogi. When 

 soonderbunds. ^.j^g wood-cutters are asked to explain why 

 the holy man has been eaten notwithstanding 

 his Tnantras, they say that he must either have 

 had a very indiiferent character, which was pro- 

 bably true, or he had forgotten his mantras 

 when attacked by the tiger, I cannot vouch for 

 the accuracy of this story, but se non i vero, 4 

 hen trovato. I have, however, seen at several 

 diiferent parts of the Soonderbunds maichans 

 which were said to have been occupied by jogis. 

 From time to time " infallible cures," " certain 

 antidotes," and " never- known-to-fail remedies" 

 are sent to me from all parts of the world to be 

 submitted to the crucial test of experiment, always 

 with the same result — utter failure. Many of 

 them come accompanied by certificates of infalli- 

 bility, and not a few with the intimation that the 

 sender would be happy to disclose the secret, on 

 the Government sending him the reward which 

 is supposed to have been offered. I have experi- 

 mented with " antidotes" sent from Brazil, the 

 United States of America, Australia, Africa, and 

 all over India ; and in many instances the direc- 



