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Doihi is famons for the skill ef her cou- jurors and snake eharmers; end Marrabbaa arranged for ae exhibition to come oft after our late dinner. There were yeb three hoars of daylight snd we ranged ourselves in a semicircle on the porch of the hotela smell end select audience of five persons with en indefaite number of natives in the heekgreund, The chief performer, a thin, wiry native, with keen and restless black eyes, fquatted cn the stone pavement in front, flanked on elsker eide by his wife end tister. Their entira appsratus consisted of a few bowle, pipce, boxee and wicker beshketz, most rude in construction and not suggestive of any marvelous mechanism. Aud yes our conjarers went through with a most astonishing series of tricks, some of which would bifilzeven Hermann, the pres- tidigitateur, A constant fre of words was Kept up in Hindocstance between the per- formers, which seeged a sort of by-play, connected with tha various tricks, acd wie transiated by Barrabbas. Besides the ordi- nary performances, such ay swallowing swords, kniver, and nails, and afterward drawing a complete “old junk shop” from his reouth, smashing our watelies and barn- ing up our kandkerchiels, which were after- ward returned unburtte our pockets, the performer draak a mixture of three pow- dersred, white and bluein a glass of