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the deputies, who, during the armistice, had held 

 their sittings on board a ship in the anchorage. 



There was little, at first sight, in his appear- 

 ance to engage the attention ; but when he rose 

 up and began to speak, his superiority was appa- 

 rent. He received us in very homely style, on 

 the deck of his vessel, dressed in a large surtout 

 coat, and a large fur cap, and seated at a table 

 made of a few loose planks laid along the top of 

 «ome empty casks. He is a tall, erect, well-pro- 

 portioned, handsome man, with a large aquiline 

 nose, thick black hair, and immense bushy dark 

 whiskers, extending from ear to ear under the 

 chin ; his complexion is deep olive, and his eye, 

 which is large, prominent, and piercing, is jet 

 black ; his whole appearance being highly milita- 

 ry. He is thoroughly well-bred, and unaffected- 

 ly simple in his manners ; exceedingly cordial and 

 engaging, and possessed evidently of great kind- 

 liness of disposition : in short, I have never seen 

 any person, the enchantment of whose address was 

 more irresistible. In conversation he went at 

 once to the strong points of the topic, disdaining, 

 as it were, to trifle with its minor parts ; he listen- 



