650 _ TRAVELS, &c. 
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had better been in bed fick of a fever, than been guilty of © 
that unprovoked violence. ‘ Brutal comme un Provencal,’ 
is a proverb even in your own country; I would not wifh 
to have fuch a confirmation of the truth of it. But there 
' are my keys, in cafe another. gale fhould come, choofe out 
of my trunks the one that, according to your idea, and © 
theirs, is likelieft to have a dead man in it, and then take 
another ; and the firft one you find, throw them all over- 
board. I forced him to open two of the chefts, and, lucky 
it was, as I believe, for off the ifland of Malta we had ano- 
ther violent gale, but which did us no damage. At laft, 
after a paflage of about three weeks, we landed happily at 
Marfeilles. 
Nullum numen abeft fi fit prudentia ; fed Te, 
Nos facimus, Fortuna Deym, caloque locamus. | 
' JuvVEN. . 
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