Travels in the Mogul Empire, . we found ;i large blackscorpion, which a young Mogol of my acquaintance tookup and squeezed in his hand, then in the hand of myservant, and lastly in mine, without any of us being young cavalier pretended that he had charmed thescorpion, as he had charmed many others, with a passagefrom the Koran; but I will nut/ added he, leach yonthai f&ssttge, because the occult power would then departfrom me and rest with yon, in the same manner as it leftmy teacher the moment he imparted the secret. While traversing this same mountain of Ptre-petgale,
Travels in the Mogul Empire, . we found ;i large blackscorpion, which a young Mogol of my acquaintance tookup and squeezed in his hand, then in the hand of myservant, and lastly in mine, without any of us being young cavalier pretended that he had charmed thescorpion, as he had charmed many others, with a passagefrom the Koran; but I will nut/ added he, leach yonthai f&ssttge, because the occult power would then departfrom me and rest with yon, in the same manner as it leftmy teacher the moment he imparted the secret. While traversing this same mountain of Ptre-petgale,where the elephants tumbled down, three things recalledmy old philosophical speculations. The first was that we ex- 1 Tile place where this accident happened is. Mli:ved Id U- close inthe summit of the fir Prtttj&1 Pass, about two mites op the Ilinrtostanaide, ivhcre then; are sil Tidier ityly xijj-janjs iti the road, In thempimf Kashmir in the 1G72 Dutch edition, hen; reproduced, die siteof this accident is very graphically THE PARADISE Oi THE INDIES 40f) perieuced the opposite seasons of summer and winter withinthe same hour. In ascending were exposed to theintense heat of the sun, and perspired most profusely; butwhen we reached the summit, we found ourselves in themidst of frozen snow, through which a passage for thearmy had been recently cut; a small and congealed rain wasfalling, and the wind blew piercingly cold. The poor !n-dians, most of whom had never felt the severity of winter,and saw for the first time ke and snow, were in a state ofgreat suffering and astonishment and fled with precipitation. The second circumstance was, that within two hundredpaces the wind blew from two opposite quarters. Whileclimbing toward the summit it blew in my face, that is,from the north ; but I no sooner began to descend on theOther side than it bleu on my back, that is, from thesouth ; as if the vapours escaping from all .sides, and risingto tin* summit of the mountain, had the
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