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AN ARRIVAL--FORMS OF RECEPTION--SEVERAL NEW CHRISTENINGS--AN.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT, AND TERRA FIRMA.
It is always agreeable to arrive safe, at the end of a long, fatiguing, and hazardous journey.

But the pleasure is considerably augmented when the visit is paid to a novel region, with a steam-climate, and which is peopled by a new species.

My own satisfaction, too was coupled with the reflection that I had been of real service to four very interesting and well-bred strangers, who had been cast, by an adverse fortune, into the hands of humanity, and who owed to me a boon far more precious than life itself--a restoration to their natural and acquired rights, their proper stations in society, and sacred liberty! The reader will judge, therefore, with what inward self-congratulation I now received the acknowledgments of the whole monikin party, and listened to their most solemn protestations ever to consider, not only all they might jointly and severally possess in the way of estates and dignities, at my entire disposal, but their persons as my slaves.

Of course, I made as light as possible of any little service I might have done them, protesting in my turn, that I looked upon the whole affair more in the light of a party of pleasure than a tax, reminding them that I had not only obtained an insight into a new philosophy, but that I was already, thanks to the decimal system, a tolerable proficient in their ancient and learned language.