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 ¬to go naked, though it is the very secret of love and desire, that something should always be concealed and left for the imagination to supply. Neither do you seem to take into the account that, even if you had seen nothing at all, you have still been here; you must know and feel that you have, and even if you had not, and wished to have the credit of it, who could contradict you? — all the devils in hell could not deny it. For all these reasons, my dear friend, and for a thousand others, depend upon it there can be nothing in this world, nor, without meaning to be prophane, perhaps in that hereafter, so absolutely perfect, as the scene we are now um # # # ¬The remainder of my friend's sentence, viz. the rest of the word *umbuging, which in Swaloal, it seems, means enjoying, was here unhappily broken, by his bones being nearly broken also ; for at this moment lie was knocked off his horse by another, which having thrown his ¬* In the language of Armata it is an aspiration as with us, and not a letter. ¬f rider ¬