Yesterday while on the road from the place mentioned I was overtaken by a heavy thunderstorm, We seemed to be right in the centre of the electrical dis charge. The lightning flashes were sant xnd very vivid. They seemed to be playing all around, "One flash entered the ground within twenty-five paces of me as 1 tan through a pelting downpour. For a full hour this fearful storm continued. Soon some men passing told me that a couple of miles ahead of me a man passing on the road had been struck by the lightning and stantly killed. I did not at first credit the story, but others passing confirmed it and I determined to go on and sea for myself. There was no difficulty in finding the place for everybody knew about it and a crowd of people were wending their way there. Along the road this was naturally the theme of conversation, and these who were returning from seeing him were of different opinions as to how he had met his death. One assured me that he bad been killed by a devil or spirit for there were no marks on him, others had said that the thunder had struck him. Again there were tales already afloat that the body was covered with some kind of strange characters from heaven which no man could understand. Many asked me if I had power to raise him from the dead again, or if I could do anything to bring him round. I told them thet he was beyond human help. Arrived at the sput, I saw the body of a young man stripped to the waist and lying under a house to which he had been carried. A superstitious belief would not allow them to bring him into the house, By his side stretched headlong were the mother and wife wailing in the fashion usual to Enstern women. I saw at, a glance, of course, that the tale of the heavenly characters was a myth, there were we marks er. discolourations. A slight mark and a little trace of blood at the left ear showed that the electric current had entered there and death must have been
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