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Rh experience, the hairbrained fellow. He has studied in foreign universities, has seen Holland, England, and Scotland, has wandered among the various tribes of India and now he is at length returned suddenly and to my great satisfaction just as mad and wild as ever, but well informed. He has heard wonders related of our prophets in this country. He has seen many plants and animals of this species in Asia, and seems as if fallen from the clouds, that, as he turned his back upon them, a much more extraordinary plant should have shot up in his own country close on the threshold of his native home, than any he had observed in tropical climates, nor has he left me a moment's peace, until I promised to set out with him accompanied by you too."—"But why did he not come here immediately with you?" cried Edmond.

"His mother, his cousins, his acquaintances" answerd Vila, "The whole town of St. Hypolite would not let him go so quickly, he is obliged to narrate until his