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which added considerably to the 
pleasure which they felt from the 
tout ensemble. Never did I observe 
so young achild pay such unremitt- 
ing attention to the whole represen- 
tation, as little Ickenna: no sooner 
‘did the swords begin to clash, in the 
fighting scene between Posthumus 
. and Jachimo, but she set up a most 
feeling scream. 
‘¢ About a fortnight after our ar- 
rival in town, having provided great- 
coats, boots, and hats for the men, in 
order that they might pass through 
the streets unobserved, I took Attui- 
ock with me, and walked beyond 
the Tower. We there took boat, 
zowed up the river, and landed at 
Westminster Bridge; from whence 
we walked to Hyde Park Corner, 
» and then home again. I was in 
great expectation that he would be- 
gin to relate the wonders which he 
had seen, the. instant he entered the 
room; but I found myself greatly 
disappointed. He immediately sat 
down by the fireside, placed both 
his hands on his knees, leaned his 
head forward, fixed his eyes on the 
ground in a stupid stare, and con- 
‘tinued in that posture for a consi- 
derable time. At length, tossing 
up his head, and fixing his eyes on 
the ceiling, he broke out in the fol- 
lowing soliloquy : ‘‘ Oh, I am tired; 
here are too many houses; too 
much smoke; too many people; 
Labrador is very good: seals are 
plentiful there; 1 wish I was back 
again.” By which I could plainly 
perceive, that the multiplicity and 
variety of objects had confounded 
his ideas; which were too much 
confined to comprehend any thing 
but the inconveniences that he had 
met with. And indeed, the longer 
they continued in England, the more 
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was I convinced of the truth of that 
opinion ; for their admiration in- 
creased in proportion as their ideas 
expanded; till at length they begam 
more clearly to comprehend the use, 
beauty, and mechanism of what they 
saw; though the greater part of 
these were as totally lost upon them 
as they would have been upon one 
of the brute creation. 
“¢ Although they had often passed: 
St. Paul’s without betraying any 
great astonishment, or at least not 
so much as all Europeans do at the 
first sight of one of those stupendous 
islands of ice which are daily to be 
seen near the east coast of their own 
country, yet when I took them to 
the top of it, and convinced them 
it was built by the hands of men (a 
circumstance which had not entered 
their heads before, for they had sup- 
posed it a natural production) they 
were quite lost in amazement. The 
people below, they compared to- 
mice; and insisted, that it must at 
least be as high as Cape. Charles,. 
which is a mountain of considerable 
altitude. Upon my asking them 
how they would describe it to their 
contrymen on their return, they re-- 
plied, with a look of the utmost ex-- 
pression, they should neither men- 
tion it, nor many other things which 
they had seen, lest they should be 
called liars, from the seeming impos- 
sibility of such astonishing facts. 
** Walking along Piccadilly one 
day, with the two men, I took them 
into.a shop to shew them a collec- 
tion of animals. We had no sooner 
entered than I observed their atten- 
tion rivetted on a small monkey ;. 
and I could perceive horror most 
strongly depicted in their counten- 
ances. At Jength the old man turn- 
ed to me, and faltered out, ‘* Is that 
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