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14    LETTERS TO his indagation of game in their latitation, and has by his nocturnal latrations kept at bay the whole furacious race.

I onerated my dorsal part with a portmanteau for the vectitation of my habiliments: my humeral protrusion, I also onerated with an instrument consisting of a ligneous stock and ferreous tube for the internecion of aligerous and volant bipeds, and of the tenants of arborous wilds, and of those bipeds that are given to latrociny or a furacious life.

With this armature, I pursued my pedestrious peregrination, transcending acclivities and declivities, until the solar luminary had attained meridional arduity, pouring down upon me his calefactory radiations so that my corporeal organization was, in totality, subjected to redundant sudations. After having participated in a collation, I submitted my corporeity to a quiescence which effected an instauration of my physical energies. I then resumed my locomotion and elongated it until past crepuscule. Thus ended my first day's demigration unvaried by a multiplicity of neoteric occurrences. But Oh! my defatigation and the tumefaction of my pedal extremities! But, you know, the inchoation of all enterprises is arduous.

Yours, incessably, LORENZO ALTISONANT.

Aquaticuille, Occident, June 1st.

BENIGN SIR, – In my precedaneous communication I conducted you to the termination of my primal day's itineration. Soon after my vespartine repast of that day, I intimated to the caterer for human and belluine entities, that in consequence of feeling superla-