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THE TRAVELS OF


with bamboes to keep off the crowd of ſpectators: they attack each other with great fury, for ſeveral hours, till one of them with it's rider, is either killed or diſabled. The buffaloe commonly engages with the tyger, and, though ferocious the latter; frequently worſts his quadruped antagoniſt. It would be endleſs to enumerate the many diverſions of this kind, which conſiſt of various animals attacking each other or combated by men who riſque their lives in ſuch dangerous enterprizes.

Among the joyous inhabitants of this country, there are ſome content to live on what its juſt ſufficient to ſupply human neceſſity: which is

ſtrictly