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Show FEARED BURIAL IN TRANCE. Unhappy Existence Led by Victim ef ,, Peculiar Disease. . "In on of my, vojragos from JCap Town to; England," writes a travelsr. 1 shared my cabin with ;( peculiar, man. whose name was Latarus. He made mo promise that If ho should die during tho voyago I would prevent bis burlnl at sea. He said that on a previous o)ugo ho had fallen sick and was taken for dead and put Into a sack for burial. A quartermaster had boon put on to watch the body null It was time for the- funcrnl. Whon the burial party arrived, the quartormaster Irifdrmml tho captain that ho thought the body had moved In the sack. The sack was opened and Lazarus eventually camo to life again. Buch was tho story Lazarus told me. Lazarus was a thin man, with a sallow sal-low faco. He had an enormous appetite appe-tite and appoarod lit every meal, to which ho devoted h'ls wholo oncrgles. Tho good feeling only scorned to add to his corpaellko appearance. One eenlng, suro enough, when wo were about, half wny to our voyage's end, ho apparently died again. Xhe doctors took him In chargo this tlmo, however, and he camo out of his tranco without any shottrd-sack episode. Ho was met at tho London docks by a number of relatives and frlonds, all of whom looked as If thoy might be suffering from tho same complaint." |