I soon grew so familiarized to the sight of spirits, that after the
third or fourth time they gave me no emotion at all: or, if I had
any apprehensions left, my curiosity prevailed over them. For his
highness the governor ordered me "to call up whatever persons I
would choose to name, and in whatever numbers, among all the dead
from the beginning of the world to the present time, and command
them to answer any questions I should think fit to ask; with this
condition, that my questions must be confined within the compass of
the times they lived in. And one thing I might depend upon, that
they would certainly tell me the truth, for lying was a talent of
no use in the lower world."
I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a
favour. We were in a chamber, from whence there was a fair
prospect into the park. And because my first inclination was to be
entertained with scenes of pomp and magnificence, I desired to see
Alexander the Great at the head of his army, just after the battle
of Arbela: which, upon a motion of the governor's finger,
immediately appeared in a large field, under the window where we
stood.
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