We could hear the yells of the boys and the cheers of the lookers-on as plainly in our room as if we had been on the field.
The scryer may let his consciousness play freely, but should not be disturbed by lookers-on.
A Latin memoir of Tamerlane by Perondinus, printed in 1600, entitled Magni Tamerlanis scytharum imperatoris vita, describes Timur as tall and bearded, broad-chested and broadshouldered, well-built but lame, of a fierce countenance and with receding eyes, which express cruelty and strike terror into the lookers-on.
