AFRICA. loi 
" and an eternal pledge of remembrance. I 
" have hitherto diicharged this duty with the 
" moft filial tendernefs, .though it has lono; 
" painfully reminded me that this dear parent 
is no more; but now that I am. going to 
" refide with my father to confole and comfort 
him in his old age, can I any longer pre- 
^' ferve what would ioceffantly expofe to his 
view the lofs he has fuftained ? No ; it is my 
^' friend who mud henceforth wear it for me : 
by this title is it, my dear Vaillant, that I 
" tranfmit it to yon, not as an ordinary pre- 
fent, 'but as- a legacy/ that wvs bequeathed me, 
*^ a legacy that I value, and of which I charge 
you to acquit for m.e the duties, by ufmg it 
" agreeably to the intentions of my venerable 
" motner. 
Such a prefent as a morning-gown to a tra? 
veller accuftomed to a very different ftyle of 
drefs, almoft always equipped in a hunting 
jacket and with a fufee in his hand, will ap- 
pear laughable enough to the reader, who will 
conceive it much better fitted for the fhoulders 
of one of our phyficians or folicitors of the 
ancient mode. But the occafion of this fcene, 
wbiqh fq many would look upon as calculated 
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