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viii unimportant; but I am in hopes the eccentricity may please in frivolous circles.

To the friend who accompanied me, I owe many thanks already, indeed I wish I owed him nothing else; but at this moment I feel towards him an almost exaggerated tenderness. He, at least, will become my reader:—if it were only to follow his own travels alongside of mine. R. L. S.