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Loyalty and fidelity of these animals. 



pulls down two or three. Add to which the 

 great 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 with- 

 out shoes, and make white people bleed plenti- 

 fully through their stockings. Neither can a 

 building be let to stand so as to get a view of the 

 interior parts without interruption; for, while 

 the soldiers are defending the outworks, the la- 

 bourers keep barricading all the way against in- 

 truders, stopping up the different galleries and 

 passages which lead to the various apartments, 

 particularly the royal chamber, all the entrances 

 to which they fill up so artfully as not to let it 

 be distinguishable while it remains moist; and, 

 externally, it has no other appearance than that 

 of a shapeless lump of clay. It is however easily 

 found, from its situation with respect to the other 

 parts of the building, and by the crowds of la- 

 bourers and soldiers which surround it, who 

 show their loyalty and fidelity by dying under 

 its walls. The royal chamber, in a large nest, is 

 capacious enough to hold many hundreds of the 

 attendants, besides the royal pair; and it is 

 always found as full of them as it can hold. 

 These faithful subjects never abandon their 

 charge even in the last distress ; for, whenever 

 our author took out the royal chamber (as he 

 often did, and preserved it for some time in a 

 large glass bowl) all the attendants continued 

 running in one direction round the king and 



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