3o6 LETTER XL 



After a fliort converfatidn had with him, he con- 

 duced them to this plealant (haded Room, " and 

 defired them to fit dowii, and not to flir. Dr. 

 Pate?i fate clofe by the Brachman, who pulled 

 out a Book, and read therein, mumbling to him- 

 felf, the Characflers being all Indian^ and of courfe 

 unknown to niy Friend. He had not long done 

 fo, before iip corhes ia 'Crocodile about three foot 

 in length,' and walked quietly enough till he 

 came up to him, where he flood flill for a while 

 till the India?! Brachman had gently flroaked 

 him, "and then after taking a Tour rbutid the 

 Room, returned back to the Pond. ThelBf^aich- 

 man began to read a fecond time, and quickly 

 after comes up another Crocodile about feveH 

 foot long, which behaved in the fame civil man- 

 ner with the former, before he returned back to 

 the Pond. The Brachman reiad a little the third 

 time, and up comes a third Crocodile, that the 

 Dodtoi* gueffed might be twelve foot long ^ This 

 huge Monfter terrified him heartily, but howe- 

 ver did him lio hurt, excepting a heavy ftroak on 

 the Shins, with his Tail-end, as he turned round 

 to go back again to the Pond. They all imme- 

 diately accompanied the o\A Indian back to his 

 Hut ; where he gave them fome Fruit to carry 

 with them on board the Ship, and for which (as 

 well as for his Conjuring) they made him a fmall 

 Prefent. The Doctor was glad enough that he 



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