B902 <=> B904 (BTG XLI The bokharian dervish, p. 903)

“In order completely to smooth over the previous embarrassment, I spoke to him again, and pointing to a niche in the cave where many colored silk materials were hanging in strips, I asked him:

“’Most estimable Hadji! What is all that material over there in that niche?’

“To this question of mine he replied that those colored materials were also used for his experiments on vibrations, and he continued further: ‘I recently made it clear for myself which colors of the materials – and to what extent – act by their vibrations harmfully on people and on animals.

“’If you wish I will show you this highly interesting experiment also.’

“Having said this, he again stood up and again went into the neighboring section from where he soon led in, this time with the help of the boy, three quadruped terrestrial beings called ‘dog,’ ‘sheep,’ and ‘goat’; he also brought in several strangely shaped apparatuses resembling bracelets.

“He put one of these special bracelets on the arm of the dervish Bogga-Eddin, and another on his own arm, meanwhile saying to me by the way as he did so:

“’I do not put one of these apparatuses on you . . . as I have certain rather weighty reasons.’

“One of these strange collar-like apparatuses he then put on to the necks of the aforesaid goat, sheep, and dog, and indicating the vibrometers on these strange apparatuses, he asked us to remember or to note down all the figures which would be indicated by the hands of the vibrometers on each of these externally different beings.

“We looked at the figures shown by all the five vibrometers, and wrote these down in the ‘block notes,’ or as they are usually called there ‘writing pads,’ which were given to us by the boy.