The place, before which we anchored, was called "'Noogollefa "': it was near an Island, named Bonghy-moddoo; on which former navigators pitched their tents, as a convenient spot, on account of its separation from the main Island, to preserve themselves from being too much incommoded by the natives.
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The gallery was above the arena and was capable of containing 200 people or, by report of William Pitt Lennox, " perhaps a greater number of less refractory persons, for the common run of spectators were so obstreperous and so agitated by various emotions, according to the amount of bets depending, and the various turns of the conflict, that a decent orderly person would feel himself much incommoded by a considerably less number ."
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And while there is a Lewis Carroll-like order in the manic speech of one unhappy man ( " You have already triangulated, dragged, incommoded me "; " That's all for now, Doctor, Sir, Madam " ), it is terrible to watch him as he hears himself on tape, misspeaking the limpid verses of Thomas Gray's " Elegy in a Country Churchyard ."
