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60 We went with him into his dwelling, which was one of the neatet I have; ever een; it was quite quare, and meaured from, one angle to the other, not more than five yards: it roe to a great height like a teeple, and the top was flat, encompaed with battlements, to which he ometimes acended by a long ladder. At certain hours in the day, he tretched in a lifeles manner on; the kin of ame wild animal, not unlike a lion's, enjoying the pleaure of reading ome fayourite author. In one corner of the houe, he kept a continual fire, made on a mall pace between three bricks, on which he dreed his food that; conited motly of rice, and the fruits of his garden; but whatever was