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me say, that the only object in view, in 

 relating the remainder of the journey I took 

 in company with my new friends, is solely to 

 give an idea how some persons travel, who 

 wish to save their health and clothes, and 

 who have not much regard for decency. The 

 great resemblance was the surprising fondness 

 they both had for strong drink, and also the 

 marvellous facility with which they carried 

 it under their belts. The stout sonorous 

 voice belonged to a sort of gentleman who 

 might have seen fifty-five summers pass over 

 his coal-black head of hair, about five feet nine 

 inches in height, and pretty nearly the same 

 round his waist, weighing at least twenty 

 stone. He was truly enormous to look at, 

 and yet with all his obesity I found afterwards 

 that he had a certain activity in mounting 

 and dismounting from horseback that shewed 

 he had seen more agile days. The thin weak 

 voice was the organ of speech of a very great 

 contrast to the above ; it was the property 

 of an old-wizened looking man of less than 

 five feet in height, and who could not have 

 weighed much more than five stone ; but, 

 with the exception of two Moorish officers 

 of the custom-house in the river of Tetuan on 

 the coast of Barbary, I never met with the 



