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CHAP. II that my Comrade and I could hardly lift them. In the Left pocket were Two black Pillars irregularly shaped: We could not, without difficulty, reach the top of them as we stood at the bottom of his pocket. One of them was covered, and seemed all of a piece ; But at the upper end of the other, there appeared a white round Substance, about twice the big-



'We saw certain strange figures.'

ness of our Heads. Within each of these was enclosed a prodigious Plate of Steel; which, by our orders, we obliged him to shewshow [sic] us, because we apprehended they might be dangerous Engines. He took them out of their Cases, and told us, that in his own country his practice was to shave his Beard with one of these, and to cut his Meat with the other. There were two pockets which we could not enter: These he called his Fobs; they were Two large Slits cut into the top of his