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6o A TOUR THROUGH
the fatigues of the journey. Come, we
shall make them as fliort as polsible.
We left you, I think, in a little village
on the top of a high mountain. We
should indeed use you very ill, were we
to leave you there any longer; for I own
it is the very worst country quarter, that
ever fell to my lot. However, we got
a good comfortable sseep in it, the only
one thing it assorded us ; and the sseas,
the bugs, and chickens, did all that lay
in their power even to deprive us of that,
but we defied them. Our two leaders
came to awake us before five, apostrophy-
ing their entry with a detail of the horrid
robberies and murders that had been com-
mitted in the neighbourhood ; all of them,
you may be sure, on the very road that we
were to go.
Our whole squadron was drawn out,
and we were ranged in order of battle, by
five
the fatigues of the journey. Come, we
shall make them as fliort as polsible.
We left you, I think, in a little village
on the top of a high mountain. We
should indeed use you very ill, were we
to leave you there any longer; for I own
it is the very worst country quarter, that
ever fell to my lot. However, we got
a good comfortable sseep in it, the only
one thing it assorded us ; and the sseas,
the bugs, and chickens, did all that lay
in their power even to deprive us of that,
but we defied them. Our two leaders
came to awake us before five, apostrophy-
ing their entry with a detail of the horrid
robberies and murders that had been com-
mitted in the neighbourhood ; all of them,
you may be sure, on the very road that we
were to go.
Our whole squadron was drawn out,
and we were ranged in order of battle, by
five