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his fault, came to introdace the two beauties 
to me, and offer me my choice of them. He 
judged ill of my wants, and ftill worfe of my 
wifhes. The reader certaioly defires not to 
be my confident : what pretty tales fliould I 
have to tell him, what voluptuous pidures to 
draw, what delightful folitudes, what fine re- 
veries to recall to mind ; but it was for this 
very- reafon I carried my continence fo far. 
Bafter, to avoid the trouble of making a choice, 
efpoufed both the fultanas at once. This per- 
haps was an irregularity ; but I allowed it, to 
avoid greater, and was the accomplice as well 
as witnefs of their joys. 
After his example, feveral of my people made 
fimilar agreements, either with Bernfry for his 
wives, or with other women ; fo that in a few 
days I had feven married men in my camp. 
One day when Bernfry came to vifit me, he 
told me, that, as he went along the river's fide, 
not far from my camp, he had obferved a fe- 
male hippopotamus, which came out of the 
wood, and appeared to be going towards a zee- 
koe-gat with her little one. From the fize of 
the young animal, he imagined it to be at moft: 
not piore than a week old. I had never yet 
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