Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . Oneof thesi^ men exhibited several of his performances to Mr. Baines, thewell-known traveller, and displayed no small ingenuity in the magic first trick was to empty, or to appear to empty, a skin bag and anold hat, and then to shake the bag over the hat, when a piece of meat orhide fell from the former into the latter. Another performance was totie up a bead necklace in a wisp of g
Wonders of the tropics; or, Explorations and adventures of Henry M Stanley and other world-renowned travelers, including Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Speke, Emin Pasha, Du Chaillu, Andersson, etc., etc .. . Oneof thesi^ men exhibited several of his performances to Mr. Baines, thewell-known traveller, and displayed no small ingenuity in the magic first trick was to empty, or to appear to empty, a skin bag and anold hat, and then to shake the bag over the hat, when a piece of meat orhide fell from the former into the latter. Another performance was totie up a bead necklace in a wisp of grass, and hand it to one of thewhite spectators to burn. He then passed the bag to the most incredu-lous of the spectators, allowed him to feel it and prove that it was empty,while the hat was being examined by Mr. Baines and a friend. Callingout to the holder of the bag, he pretended to throw something throughthe air, and, when the bag was duly shaken, out fell the beads intothehat. This was really a clever trick, and, though any reader who has somepractical acquaintance with the art of legerdemain can see how it was<done, it is not a little surprising to see such dexterity possessed by a sav-. (59) 60 WONDERS OF THE TROPICS. age. The success of this trick was the more remarkable because theholder of the bag had rather unfairly tried to balk the Conjurer Exposed. On a subsequent occasion, however, the conjurer attempted the sametrick, varjnng it by requesting the beads should be broken instead ofburned. The holder of the beads took the precaution of marking themwith ink before breaking them, and in consequence all the drumming ofthe conjurer could not reproduce them until after dark, when anotherstring of beads, precisely similar in appearance, was found under thewagon. Being pressed on the subject, the conjurer admitted that theywere not the same beads, but said that they had been sent supernaturallyto replace those which had been broken. The same operator w
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