TRAVELS IN 
cned the general intoxication, by relating the 
marvels they had witneffed. 
Their narrative was fo interefting, that it 
brought the whole crowd around them. Inter- 
rupted every moment by twenty different 
perfons with as many diflerent queftions, they 
refumed their difcourfe^ added, exaggerated^ 
confounded circumftances and adventures to* 
gether, and rendered their tale fo confufed, that 
it excited univerfal rapture from the very cir- 
cumftance of its being incomprehenfible. 
This continued the whole day, and was 
interrupted only by the noify dlverfions of the 
night. I could fcafcely hope to enjoy the re- 
frefhment of fleep in the midft of people whofe 
tumultuous uproar is alvvays proportionate to 
the pleafure they feel, and among whom a fef- 
tival has the appearance of an alarm and battle. 
Without attempting, therefore, to retire to my 
tent, I remained among them, and thought 
only of enjoying the fpedacle it exhibited. 
The narrators of what they had feen par- 
ticularly engaged my attention. Knowing 
enough of the language to underftand them^ 
they amufed me extremely. Though they 
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