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bottles, each containing five or fix pounds of 
gunpowder. This was placed there only for 
immediate ufe, and to fupply the wants of the 
moment. My general magazine was compofed 
of fevera! fmall barrels ; and, to preferve them 
from fire or moifture, I rolled them up in fheep's 
{kins newly flayed. This covering, when once 
dry, w^as abfolutely impenetrable. Reckoning 
every thing, I could depend upon four or five 
hundred pounds of gunpowder, and two thou- 
fand, at leaf!:, of lead and tin, either un wrought 
or formed into fiiot and bullets. Of fixteen 
fufees I had tv/elve in one carriage : one of 
thefe, intended for large animals, fuch as the 
rhinoceros, the elephant, and the hippopo- 
tamus, carried a ball that weighed a quarter of 
a pound. Befides thefe I was provided with 
feveral pairs of double-barrelled piftols, a large 
cimeter, and a poniard. The fecond waggon 
exhibited in caricature the moft curious appa- 
ratus perhaps ever feen ; but it was no lefs va- 
luable to m^e on that account. It was my 
kitchen. What delicious and peaceable repafts 
did I enjoy ! and how dear to my heart the 
remembrance of my charming and domeftic life 
ftill is ! Whenever I am prefent at thofe din- 
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