When Gullah Jack was otherwise engaged, there seems to have been a sortof deputy seer employed in the enterprise, a blind man named Philip. Hewas a preacher; was said to have been born with a caul on his head, andso claimed the gift of second-sight. Timid adherents were brought to hishouse for ghostly counsel. "Why do you look so timorous?" he said toWilliam Garner, and then quoted Scripture, "Let not your heart betroubled." That a blind man should know how he looked, was beyond thephilosophy of the visitor; and this piece of rather cheap ingenuitycarried the day.