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Dick Sand

CHAPTER V
13/18

Ah! such travelers.

They do not know how to see! Well! all the better, after all.

I have discovered a _tsetse_ in America.

To the glory of this, I shall join that of having found the warlike termites on the same continent! What matter for an article that will make a sensation in educated Europe, and, perhaps, appear in folio form, with prints and engravings, besides the text!" It was evident that the truth had not entered Cousin Benedict's brain.
The poor man and all his companions, Dick Sand and Tom excepted, believed themselves, and must believe themselves, where they were not! It needed other incidents, facts still more grave than certain scientific curiosities, to undeceive them! It was then nine o'clock in the morning.

Cousin Benedict had talked for a long time.


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