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 ¬curtains, that they did not even seem to ob- serve us. ¬When we arrived at the port of exit, I now took Cathmor's advice as to the most agreeable mode or" parting salutation, giving our con- ductress one of the largest coins that circulate in Armata, which she received with a most gracious smile, curtseying to me at the same time till the key of the great hall was stretched motionless on the ground. ¬We now returned through the plantations by a different road. — I had a fowling-piece with me, the gift of Morven on my first landing, and, seeing an animal run by, with a smell as it passed me that almost produced suffocation, and carrying in his jaws a most beautiful bird, which he was bringing from a field where se- veral bleturs and their young lay torn and man- gled, I almost instinctively raised my gun to my shoulder to shoot him : but my companion, holding my arm, cried out with the utmost ¬emotion, ¬