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like thofe pretty ones given to me by Narina. 
When they arrived, we dug up with great cau- 
tion the b alb of the lily, which was thirteen inches 
in height, and twenty-feven in circumference* 
In fhape and colour it refembled that of the 
tulip ; but, inftead of being compofed of fepa- 
rate coats, like the bulb of the lily, it was full, 
pulpy, and very heavy. I at leaft conjed:ured 
fo' by analogy from what I faw of the exterior 
part, which, notwithftanding all our care, 
had been cut by the iron implements ufed to 
dig up the earth around it. 
The flower, when arranged, and in a man- 
ner planted in its balket, was placed at the 
entrance of my tent by way of ornament. 
The corollas all opened and expanded in fuc- 
ceffion ; and, for a long time, I enjoyed the 
pleafure of beholding it, and of fmelling its 
delicious odour, till its perfume being ex- 
haufted, and having no longer flrength to at- 
trafl: the moifture which nourifhed it, I faw 
it droop, wither, and die. 
I had the good fortune to preferve the bulb 
of this lily during my whole journey ; and I 
carried it to the Cape, with a defign of fending 
it to the botanical garden j but the reader may 
have 
