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Essays and Tales by Joseph Addison
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Good taste and nature always speak the same.

When the four Indian kings were in this country about a twelvemonth
ago, I often mixed with the rabble, and followed them a whole day
together, being wonderfully struck with the sight of everything that
is new or uncommon. I have, since their departure, employed a
friend to make many inquiries of their landlord the upholsterer
relating to their manners and conversation, as also concerning the
remarks which they made in this country; for next to the forming a
right notion of such strangers, I should be desirous of learning
what ideas they have conceived of us.

The upholsterer finding my friend very inquisitive about these his
lodgers, brought him sometime since a little bundle of papers, which
he assured him were written by King Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, and, as
he supposes, left behind by some mistake. These papers are now
translated, and contain abundance of very odd observations, which I
find this little fraternity of kings made during their stay in the
Isle of Great Britain. I shall present my reader with a short
specimen of them in this paper, and may perhaps communicate more to
him hereafter. In the article of London are the following words,
which without doubt are meant of the church of St. Paul

"On the most rising part of the town there stands a huge house, big
enough to contain the whole nation of which I am the king. Our good
brother E Tow O Koam, King of the Rivers, is of opinion it was made
by the hands of that great God to whom it is consecrated. The Kings
of Granajar and of the Six Nations believe that it was created with
the earth, and produced on the same day with the sun and moon. But
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