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fixed their looks attentively, now at the inftru* 
ment, then at the luminary. Silent and mo- 
tionlefs, they waited for the report with Impa-» 
tience, and were much difconcerted when they 
found my operation terminate without any ex* 
plofion. 
The reft of their companion?, who, from 
the tale they had heard, expeded fome prodigy, 
did not well know what to think of it. . At 
length, however, willing to fatisfy them in one 
way or another, and at the fame time amufe 
myfelf with their fimpllclty, I paufed my per- 
fpedlve glafs to be brought, which to them 
was a third fufee, placed It on the ftand which 
ferved as a fupport for my great carbine, and, 
direding It towards the kraal, defired the per- 
fon whom I thought the boldeft among the 
IMImiquas to look through It. 
Every one knows the hiftory of the young 
man born blind, who fuddenly faw the light, in 
confequence of the depreffion of his cataraft 
by Chefelden, It may be remembered, that 
for fome time all the objeds he faw were to 
him fo many iilufions ; that he believed them 
all clofe to his eye ; that he was miftaken with 
l-egard to their figures as well as their diftance ; 
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