Owing to the many and great difficulties thrown in my way, I had
been seriously considering the advisability of withdrawing, if only
for a time, from my course of medical study, when I received the
following dream, which determined me to persevere:--

I found myself on the same narrow, rugged, and precipitous path
described in my last dream, and confronted by a lion. Afraid to
pass him I turned and fled. On this the beast gave chase, when,
finding escape by flight hopeless, I turned and boldly faced him.
Whereupon the lion at once stopped and slunk to the side of the path,
and suffered me to pass unmolested, though I was so close to him
that I could not avoid touching him with my garments in passing.

--Paris, Nov. 15, 1877

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* The prognostic was fully justified by the event.--(Ed.)
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XII. A Dream of Disembodiment