344. I was once allowed to perceive the nature of conjugial love among polygamists. I conversed with one who played the part of Mohammed. Mohammed himself is never present, but a substitute takes his place, so that newcomers from the world may think they see him. After conversing with me for a while at a distance, the substitute sent me an ivory spoon and other tokens that they came from him. At the same time a passage was opened up to transmit the heat of conjugial love experienced there. It was perceived by me as resembling the fetid warmth of a bath-house; on feeling it I turned away, and the passage by which it was transmitted was closed off.