A Remarkable Dream

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 65, 10 November 1885, Page 3

A Remarkable Dream

• — , . . ■♦ The following account of a remarkable dream appears in a recent is«ue of „ Knowledge." Mr Proctor's popular scientific publicat >n : "I . siibjoia extract from a letter, received on Monday last, from a son. of mine who is jn com« mand of the fastest s.s. in New Zealand waters, merely premising that the ' poor N ' referred to was a younger brother of his, who was washed overboard in mi«!« Atlantic, and the 'poor P ' a quadroon who returned with me from the West Indies in the eventful year 1848, and who nursed him an! all his brothers and sisters, except the eldeit, who died last January twelve iionth :—' Now, my dear father, I am going to tell you an astounding fact. On the date poor N -mi drowned I saw him struggling in the water oa the porl side of a steamer in a stormy sea when all at once he disappeared, and directly after, in my dream I saw poor P sitting at the foot of my bed. She said, ' not yon,' and vanished. I woke up, went on deck \ and told the chief officer of it, and, on my return below, I made a nete of it in an almanac. Since then f have worked it out, and it tallies to the moment of. the-sad.;Occi|rroncß.' §1 : having gireh'him in a letter to which toe. above was his answer, the latitude trad longitude, with local time •£ it).—Exchange* * ' ■ '-' : "" :