The Guide declar'd that often here, Things supernatural appear; To prove it he produc'd a book, From which Qui Hi a drawing took, Of which the modern true translation, Is simply 'Hindoo Incantation.' It states that _some one_, years ago, Had tried futurity to know, And he employed an old Hindoo, To get him but a single view Of future things--and lo! an hour Was fixed to show the Brahmin's pow'r, The place appointed was the spot Where Qui Hi and his friends had got, Under Great _Brahma's triple head_, That then struck unbelievers dead. The Brahmin, when the Ghurry's sound Told _one_, was with the idol found, Soliciting he would assert His power, and infidels convert. The stranger now approach'd the place, With terror pictur'd in his face. 'Infidel!' said the Brahmin, 'now I shall observe my sacred vow. Come hither, and you'll shortly see And tremble at _futurity_!' Seating the man, he now applies A magic glass before his eyes; When, lo! the Elephanta shook, And Brahma thus in thunder spoke-- 'Mark, reptile! the decrees of Fate, Which, _Brahma says_, he will complete: Till then your destiny await!' He said, and, with a stroke of thunder, The sacred temple bursts asunder; Seizes the caitiff by the hair, And hurls him headlong thro' the air. He tumbled down to whence he came, _Somewhere_ about the Hooghly stream. Phantasmagoria. A View in Elephanta. The Modern Phaeton, or the Hooghly in danger. Qui Hi arrives at the Bunder Head. Qui Hi in the Bombay Tavern. Pays a Nocturnal Visit to Dungaree. Attends General Koir Wig's Levee. Qui Hi's Introduction and cool Reception. Qui Hi shows off at the Bobbery Hunt. Qui Hi at Bobbery Hall. All alive in the Chokee. Last Visit from the Doctor's Assistant. Qui Hi's last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. Strange Figures _near_ the Cave of Elephanta, 1814. _Auspicio Regis, et Senatus Angliæ._ _June 1, 1815._ _Naples and the Campagna Felice, in a series of letters (by Lewis Engelbach). With Illustrations by Rowlandson, &c._ 8vo. Published by R. Ackermann, 101 Strand. (Reprinted from Repository of Arts, 1810-13.) Frontispiece.--The Colonel (Don Luigi) awakened from a sleeping _tête-à-tête_ by a serenade from his fair, and lately unconscious, companion. Se tanto a me piace Si rara beltà; Io perdero la pace, Quando si sveglerà. If, while entranced in balmy rest, His charms can give such pain; When he awakes, my wounded breast Will ne'er know peace again.