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tation, the mafter of which fold me thre^J more 
bcafts upon fi milar terms, and oflered me be* 
fides a lodging under his roof. Night ap- 
proached, and the cold was already extreme* 
It was fo intenfe that I could not fleep, but 
pafled the night in fhivering, wrapped up in 
my cloak, which ferved me at once for mattrefs 
and coverlid. When day-light came, 1 was 
not furprifed at the feverity of the weathef, 
for the ground was covered with fnow a foot 
deep. 
Born in the torrid zone, where I had fpent 
my early days, I was naturally fenfible of cold j 
and though I had learnt to inure myfelf to it 
in France, the three years I had fpent in Africa, 
3l climate approaching that in which I drew 
my firft breath, had revived my former fenfi- 
bility. Under fuch circumftances, it was 
highly painful to me to be expofed to the keen 
air of a frozen climate. Some reviewer, I for- 
get who, fpeakmg of my former journey, fays 
that I travelled like a Perfian fatrap, becaufe 
I had three vfaggons with me : affu redly ^ if 
this critic had beheld me in the hut of Camisj 
he would have confeffed, that this fatrap was 
not always in the lap of luxury. 
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