text: " He was fortunate moreover in making his visit to the gardens on the evening of a balloon ascent "and thus I witnessed the most wonderful sight I ever saw--a sight which a hundred millions of people in India consider to be a _Feringhi_ fiction an incredible fable; for though a Frenchman made an ascent at Lucknow some years ago nobody believes it who did not see it and many even who were present believed that their senses had been beguiled by magic