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 ¬man to those who knew me, or of a barber, per- haps, to those who might not; the ordinary dresses which I afterwards saw in Swaloal amongst all ranks and conditions, were just like my own, and of course so precisely the same that I could not for a long time know one person from another, even after some acquaintance; and when I knew them at last it was only as shepherds know their sheep, by the variety of their faces notwithstanding the similarity of ¬THEIR FLEECES I I Saw HO cloth WOITI but of tWO ¬colours only, though their fabrics are beauti- fully various, and, indeed, the whole male popu- lation of Armata seemed to be beaten black and blue by that champion of bruisers, Custom. ¬ CHAP- /n