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bers of those trees may be seen with their foliage 

 thus destroyed. Quere If those insects were 

 fed on mulberry leaves, and kept in houses, 

 would it not improve the texture of the silk? 



A very ludicrous circumstance occurred when 

 I was hog-hunting in the district of Bahar, with 

 two gentlemen ; one of them a keen sportsman, 

 and dexterous in the use of the spear ; the other a 

 spruce sort of a man, who would now be styled a 

 dandy, though very fond of accompanying sports- 

 men, talked a great deal of the sport, but was not 

 famed for killing. It so happened that two hogs 

 came out of a sugar plantation at the same time, 

 and at the side where the keen sportsman and my- 

 self were stationed : the beau was on the other 

 side of the plantation, but it was sometime be- 

 fore he learnt that we were gone off in pursuit of 

 the hogs. As he rode round to the opposite side 

 of the sugar cane, he had to pass over some 

 opium ground, in which an old woman was then 

 sowing the seed ; in gallopping up to her, to in- 

 quire the direction we had taken, his horse started 

 at a white cloth, laid out on a bank with seeds on 

 it, and threw the gentleman into the liquid mud, 

 with which he was completely bedaubed, to the 

 ruin of a fine pair of new buckskins : as soon as 



