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■with soldiers here and there among them, who' 
act just in the same manner, one or other of them 
giving the signal to hasten the business. Thus 
the pleasure of seeing them come out to fight or 
to work alternately may be obtained as often as 
curiosity excites or time permits: and it will cer- 
tainly be found, that the one order never attempts 
to fight, or the other to work, let the emergency 
be ever so great, 
“ We meet vast obstacles in examining the in- 
terior parts of these tumuli. In the first place, 
the works, for instance, the apartments which sur- 
round the royal chamber and the nurseries, and 
indeed the whole internal fabric, are moist, and 
consequent!}^ the clay is very brittle : they have 
also so close a connexion, that they can only be 
seen as it were by piece-meal; for having a kind 
of geometrical dependance or abutment against 
each other, the breaking of one arch pulls down 
two or three. To these obstacles must be added 
the obstinacy of the soldiers, who fight to the very 
last, disputing every inch of ground so well as 
often to drive away the negroes who are without 
shoes, and make white })eople bleed plentifully 
through their stockings. Neither can we let a 
building stand so as to get a view of the interior 
parts without interruption, for while the soldiers 
are defending the out-works, the labourers keep 
barricadoing all the way against us, stopping up 
the different galleries and passages which lead to 
the various ajiartments, particularly the royal cliam- 
ber, all the entrances to which they fill up so art- 
