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which the mildeft education, or the tendereft 
treatment cannot correft. Befides, refembling 
in fome degree man, in the formation and ufe 
of his members, he is like him alfo in the fa- 
cuhy of propagating at all times his fpecies ; 
and the reverfe, therefore, of other animals, 
who, in this refped, are in a ftate of virtual in- 
capacity, except in the fixed and periodical fea- 
fons which nature has alEgned them. Kees 
liad ftill his virginity, and had never known 
pleafurc. The flighted fpark would have fet 
him on fire ; an inftant vv^s fufficient to con- 
vert him into a libertine ; and if, with all the 
indifcretion and vivacity of youth, he had once 
lulled after a female, his mailer would foon 
have been forgotten ; he would have fol- 
lowed her into the depth of the woods, and 
would never more have returned. Extremely 
fond of Kees, and unable to prevail on myfelf 
to lofe him, I ufed my power as a defpot, and 
chained him up that I might difpofe of him as 
1 liked. 
The reader will forgive thefe details. They 
are interefting to a traveller like myfelf, who 
has no brilliant exploits to relate, and no 
wildernefs of invention in which to lofe him- 
felf. 
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