Burton, Richard Francis: Goa, and the blue mountains: or, six months of sick leave (London, 1851)

THE VOYAGE.

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excoriation to the exquisite titillation produced by
the perpetual perambulation, and occasional morsica-
tion (with many other -ations left to the reader's
discrimination) of our nocturnal visitations, and in
uttering emphatic ejaculations concerning the man
with the rhinoceros hide and front of brass who
invented and recommended to his kind the patti-
mar abomination.