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I find the statements correct as far as my memory is concerned. W. R. Gibbes (M.R.C.S.E., &c.) In conversation, Mrs. Gibbes stated that her son's letters had contained no hint of his return, which would not have occurred but for his attack of yellow fever. Her daughters bore witness to her state of excited expectation. [Here the impression at any rate produced a definite act of a very unlikely kind. The final sentence in Mrs. Gibbes's account of course detracts somewhat from the force of the coincidence ; but, though I am bound to print that sentence, she herself (in August, 1886) doubts its correctness, and cannot recall to what it referred.] 1 The same remark applies to an interesting case in tlie Correspondence de Mme. la Duchesse d'Orleans (Paris, 1857), Vol, i., pp. 112-3, to which our attention was called by M. GuiUaume Guizot. ^ « Versailles, 2 mars, 1709. II y a dix ans qu'un gentilhomme frangais, qui a ^t^ page du mar^chal d'Humiferes, et qui a epous^ une de mes dam.es d'atour, amena avec lui un sauvage [du Canada] en France. Un jour qu'on ^tait k table, le sauvage se mit k pleurer et h faire des grimaces. Longueil (ainsi s'appelait le gentilhomme) lui demanda ce qu'il avait, et s'il souffrait. Le sauvage ne iit que pleurer plus amferement. Longueil insistant vivement, le sauvage lui dit : ' Ne me force pas h, le dire, car c'est toi que cela concerne, et non pas moi.' _ Presse plus que jamais, il finit par dire : ' J'ai vu par la fenetre que ton frere ^tait assassin^ en tel endroit du Canada' par telle personne qu'il lui nomma. Longueil se mit k rire, et lui dit : ' Tu es devenu f ou. ' Le sauvage r^pondit : ' Je ne suis point du tout fou; mets par ecrit ce que je t'annonce, et tu verras si je me trompe.' Longueil ecrivit, et six mqis aprfes, quand les navires du Canada arrivferent, il apprit que la mort de son frfere ^tait arrivee au moment exact et h. I'endroit oti le sauvage I'avait vu en I'air psiv la fenetre. C'est une histoire trfes vraie. We cannot be sure that this incident was told to the Duchess d'Orl^ans by any one who was cognisant of the experience before the news which confirmed it arrived. But supposing the report to be substantially correct, it is to be presumed that the percipient was acquainted with the man whose death he seemed to behold ; though it is still probable that the presence with him at the time of that man's brother was to some extent a condition of the percipience, as in cases 242 and 355 above. I have drawn attention (Vol. I., pp. 156-7) to the suspicious exactitude of