it may be.  Thus, to anthropologists, the discovery of crystal-gazing as a thing widely diffused and still flourishing ought to be grateful, however much they may blame my childish credulity.  I may add that I have no ground to suppose that crystal-gazing will ever be of practical service to the police or to persons who have lost articles of portable property.  But I have no objection to experiments being made at Scotland Yard.[20]

[Footnote 1:  Information, with a photograph of the stones, from a correspondent in West Maitland, Australia.]

[Footnote 2:  Report Ethnol.  Bureau, 1887-88, p. 460; vol. ii. p. 69.  Captain Bourke’s volume on The Medicine Men of the Apaches may also be consulted.]

[Footnote 3:  Fitzroy, Adventure, vol. ii. p. 389.]

[Footnote 4:  L’Histoire de la grand Ile Madagascar, par le Sieur de Flacourt.  Paris, 1661, ch. 76.  Veue de deux Navires de France predite par les Negres, avant que l’on en peust scavoir des Nouvelles, &c.]

[Footnote 5:  Religion of the Amazulu, p. 341.]

[Footnote 6:  J.A.I., November 1894, p. 155.  Ryckov is cited; Zhurnal, p. 86.]

[Footnote 7:  Rites and Laws of the Yncas, Christoval de Molina, p. 12.]

[Footnote 8:  See Miss X’s article, S.P.R. Proceedings, v. 486.]

[Footnote 9:  Op. cit. v. 505.]

[Footnote 10:  If any reader wishes to make experiments, he, or she, should not be astonished if the first crystal figure represents ’the sheeted dead,’ or a person ill in bed.  For some reason, or no reason, this is rather a usual prelude, signifying nothing.]

[Footnote 11:  Sunday afternoon.  It is not implied that the pictures on Friday were prophetic.  Probably Miss Rose saw what Miss Angus had seen by aid of ‘suggestion.’]

[Footnote 12:  Miss Angus could not be sure of the colour of the hair.]

[Footnote 13:  The position was such that Miss Angus could not see the face of the lady.]

[Footnote 14:  I saw the photographs.]

[Footnote 15:  I have been shown the letter of January 20, which confirmed the evidence of the crystal pictures.  The camp was formed for official purposes in which Mr. Clifton was concerned.  A letter of February 9 unconsciously corroborates.]

[Footnote 16:  The incident of the feet occurred at 4.30 to 7.30 P.M.  The crystal picture was about 10 P.M.]

[Footnote 17:  Miss Angus had only within the week made the acquaintance of Mrs. Cockburn and the Bissetts.  Of these relations of theirs at a distance she had no knowledge.]

[Footnote 18:  I have seen a photograph of this gentleman, Major Hamilton, which tallies with the full description given by Miss Angus, as reported by Mrs. Bissett.  All the proper names here, as throughout, are altered.

This account I wrote from the verbal statement of Mrs. Bissett.  It was then read and corroborated by herself, Mr. Bissett, Mr. Cockburn, Mrs. Cockburn, and Miss Angus, who added dates and signatures.]