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 ¬Be patient under temporary privations — Be obedient to your government, and preserve your greatness by the wisdom which made you great."

I now felt myself exhausted in my weak condition, by an exertion to which I fear my readers may have thought, all along, my mind as much as my body was unequal, but my generous protector was satisfied, and as night was coming on, he left me again to my rest. ¬When Morven came next morning into my apartment, I found myself so much recovered from my fatigue and the bruises I had suffered amongst the rocks, that I told him I was ready to attend him any where, and was full of impa- tience to see, in all its parts, so noble a country as he had described; particularly its capital, of which he had as yet said nothing in his general and more important history. ¬He seemed highly pleased with my proposal, 2 and ¬