Three Cases of Ictus Fulmenis Which Occurred during the Late Hazara Campaign

merit some special notice. On the night of the 18th of October, during a tremendous thunder and hail storm, at the picquet, in the village of Koongullee, which stands on an isolated eminence of the mountain, three men lay asleep parallel to each other just within the doorway of a hut, heads inwards and feet towards the door ; each one had his musket alongside of him, and wore his side arms ; one flash of lightning struck the three. Though they all described the feeling on being struck, as a sudden shock, as if struck with a bullet, I am informed they were instantly insensible, and remained so for some two hours