no less amazed to see me than I was to see them.
I partook of some provisions which they offered me. I then asked them what they did in such a desert place? to which they answered, that they were grooms belonging to Maharaja, sovereign of the island; that every year, at the same season, they brought thither the king’s mares, and fastened them as I had seen, until they were covered by a seahorse, who afterwards endeavoured to
no less amazed to see me than I was to see them.
I partook of some provisions which they offered me. I then asked them what they did in such a desert place? to which they answered, that they were grooms belonging to Maharaja, sovereign of the island; that every year, at the same season, they brought thither the king’s mares, and fastened them as I had seen, until they were covered by a seahorse, who afterwards endeavoured to
