Highly dramatic combats with lances and swords follow the wrestling and while it is certain that the men purposely miss one another in their lunges and slashes, they miss by so narrow a margin that the spectator is out of his seat] throughout most of the contest.
After these artists come the strong men, as highly developed as any whom we are accustomed to see in the Occident. One man takes a dumb-bell weighing 266 pounds, tosses it in the air, catches it on his upturned forearms, tosses it again, catches it in one hand, rests it upon head and then twirls it about his neck, shoulders and waist. Another lies upon his back, supports dumb-bells weighing 540 pounds on his feet and hands and upon these a pyramid-of nine men is built. A number of lesser, lights perform with lesser dumbbells, then a man rushes to the front, two others toss a granite paving stone four inches thick on his back and it is cracked with a sledge-hammer, This is the signal for a general furore of tile and brick breaking among the acrobats, They break bricks in their hands, break them over their arms, over the backs of their necks, and over each other's faces. One man leans over, balances six bricks on the side of his face, while another smashed them all with a seventh. A man with half-a-dozen tiles in each hand will clip them over his neighbour's ears and break them all. Finally in the midst of this whirlwind.of destruction, one round-headed devotee drops on his knees, puts half a brick on top of his head upon which a huge slab of granite balanced which is then shattered, ith a sledge-hammer. The show! is then over.
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