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anger, however, had excited the curlofity of 
his comrades : all would come to my glafs 5 
^nd I acceded to their defires, changing the 
diredion of the tube, however, occafionally, 
•without their fufpeding it. What they obferved 
ravifhed them with delight : it was a fcene of 
general enchantment. But while fome faw 
trees brought near, others a mountain, fome 
Birds flying, others whole herds of cattle, it 
may be imagined what confufion muft refult 
from their tranfports, as they difputed con-^ . 
cerning the objeds they beheld fo near them, 
and how much I was amufed by this per* 
plexity. 
This comedy continued till the evening t 
but it was an inftruftive diverfion for me, 
and {howed me what an afcendancy the moft 
unfkilful mountebanks were capable of acquire 
ing over nations as ignorant as thefe when 
they firft difcovered them. 
All this occafioned me ftill more vifits the 
next morning, on the part of thofe who could 
not come the preceding day. Among them 
were the chief and his two wives* With one 
of them 1 was now an old acquaintance, and" 
accordingly ftie carefTed me greatly. . She was 
accompanied 
