Other Zulu instances will be given under the heads ‘Possession’ and ‘Fetishism.’

To take a Northern people:  In his ’History of the Lapps’[11] Scheffer describes mechanical modes of divination practised by that race, who use a drum and other objects for the purpose.  These modes depend on more traditional rules for interpreting the accidental combinations of lots.  But a Lapp confessed to Scheffer, with tears, that he could not help seeing visions, as he proved by giving Scheffer a minute relation ’of whatever particulars had happened to me in my journey to Lapland.  And he further complained that he know not how to make use of his eyes, since things altogether distant were presented to them.’  This Lapp was anxious to become a Christian, hence his regret at being a ‘rare and valuable’ example of clairvoyance.  Torfaeus also was posed by the clairvoyance of a Samoyed, as was Regnard by a Lapp seer.[12]

The next case is of old date, and, like the other savage examples, is merely given for purposes of illustration.

  ’25e Lettre.[13]

  ’"Suite des Traditions des Sauvages.”

  ’Au Fort de la Riviere de St. Joseph, ce 14 Septembre 1721.

’"Des Jongleurs”—­ ...  Vous ayez vu a Paris Madame de Marson, & elle y est encore; voici ce que M. le Marquis de Vaudreuil son Gendre, actuellement notre Gouverneur General, me raconta cet Hyver, & qu’il a scu de cette Dame, qui n’est rien moins qu’un esprit foible.  Elle etoit un jour fort inquiette an sujet de M. de Marson, son Mari, lequel commandoit dans un Poste, que nous avions en Accadie; et etoit absent, & le tems qu’il avoit marque pour son retour, etoit passe.

’Une Femme Sauvage, qui vit Madame de Marson en peine, lui en demanda la cause, & l’ayant apprise, lui dit, apres y avoir un peu reve, de ne plus se chagriner, que son Epoux reviendroit tel jour et a telle heure, qu’elle lui marqua, avec un chapeau gris sur la tete.  Comme elle s’appercut que la Dame n’ajoutoit point foi a sa prediction, au jour & a l’heure, qu’elle avoit assignee, elle rotourna chez elle, lui demanda si elle ne vouloit pas venir voir arriver son Mari, & la pressa de telle sorte de la suivre, qu’elle l’entraina au bord de la Riviere.

’A peine y etoient-elles arrivees, que M. de Marson parut dans un Canot, un chapeau gris sur la tete; & ayant appris ce qui s’etoit passe, assura qu’il ne pouvoit pas comprendre comment la Sauvagesse avoit pu scavoir l’heure & le jour de son arrivee.’

It is unusual for European travellers and missionaries to give anecdotes which might seem to ‘confirm the delusions of benighted savages.’  Such anecdotes, again, are among the arcana of these wild philosophers, and are not readily communicated to strangers.  When successful cases are reported, it is natural to assert that they come through Europeans who have sunk into barbarous superstition, or that