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 spread so widely in, that I know not whether I found man or woman, whom I interrogated concerning payments of money, that could surmount the illiberal desire of deceiving me, by representing every thing as dearer than it is.

From we rode a very few miles to the side of, which faces , where, having taken leave of our kind protector, Sir , we embarked in a boat, in which the seat provided for our accommodation was a heap of rough brushwood; and on the twenty-second of  reposed at a tolerable inn on the main land.

On the next day we began our journey southwards. The weather was tempestuous. For half the day the ground was rough, and our horses were still small. Had they required much restraint, we might have been reduced to difficulties; for I think we had amongst us but one bridle.