...stood the native company ; that opened into a large drawIXT. vii.] NATIVE ENTERTAINMENT. 27 ing-room, with a smaller room at each end, and sleeping-rooms...formidable animals, almost as long as my hand : I did not adLET. vii.] A HINDOO SUPPER. 29 mire their company, creeping about the room, so he crumpled them up...

...like those of a sensitive plant,—and showered down among us, with the leaves, five or six living scorpions ; not little things like Italian scorpions,...juggling with cups and balls, &c., like any English conjurer ; but the scorpions and cobra were quite beyond my comprehension. After he was dismissed,...

...like those of a sensitive plant, — and showered down among us, with the leaves, five or six living scorpions ; not little things like Italian scorpions,...creeping about the room ; so he crumpled them up in bis hand, and they disappeared. Then he waved his bare arms in the air, and threw a live cobra into...

...plant — and then proceeded to shower them down among us, but not alone ! — with 'the leaves came great live scorpions ; not little things like Italian...but formidable animals almost as long as my hand. We did not fall in love with this creeping company, so he gathered them up, crumpled them one by one...