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desires,” and whicli are supposed to be a true 
universal panacea for all diseases. The composition 
of these celebrated pills, like that so highly lauded 
by the admirers of Old Parr, is a secret in the pos- 
session of a single family, and has been faithfully 
transmitted from generation to generation. I regret 
to have to observe that my learned brother, towards 
the latter end of the banquet, got so inebriated 
that he was reprimanded, and ordered out of the 
room by the dignified chief. He was a good-looking 
fellow, closely shaven like a Bonze. 
We partook of the sweets and cakes, and other 
dainties provided for us ; but were I to enumerate 
all the good things with which the tables groaned, 
I might lay myself open to the imputation of 
plagiarism — as did the officers of a European 
Embassy who favoured their readers with a descrip- 
tion of a repast which had been given them by the 
mandarins. This description, however, they had 
merely copied from the narrative of some Jesuit 
missionaries who had ‘'wiitten an account more 
than a hundred years back of a similar entertain- 
