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vomited, therefore innocence was clearly established ! He 

 came in the evening of the 21st footsore and tired, and at 

 once gave us some beer. This perpetual reference to food 

 and drink is natural, inasmuch as it is the most important 

 point in our intercourse. While the chief was absent we 

 got nothing ; the queen even begged a little meat for her 

 child, who was recovering from an attack of small-pox. 

 There being no shops we had to sit still without food. I 

 took observations for longitude, and whiled away the time 

 by calculating the lunars. Next day the chief gave us 

 .a goat cooked whole and plenty of porridge : I noticed that 

 lie too had the Assyrian type of face. 



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