41 i -^" Accomit of Mr, Brown's Travels 



cafe. They were no fooner arrived at Sweini than he found 

 means to employ one of his afibciatcs, who had been fome 

 rears eftabhfhed in the phice, to go to the monarch and in- 

 frtfe into his mind fufpicions of him as a Frank and an In- 

 fidel, who came to the country for no good purpofe, and 

 wbofc defigiis it behoved him to guard againft. The villain 

 htjnfclf was in the mean time not idle. As the houfe in 

 V hieh Mr. Brown lodged had no doors, he took advantage 

 of this circumftance, and his momentary abfence, to fecrete 

 from a box, which he had broken on the road, a quantity 

 tif red coral. By the help of this commodity, Mr. Brown 

 had cxpeftcd to make his way to the Great. At the end of 

 ■\ few davs, this agei>t leturncdj bearing a fpecious letter 

 ii-onreffcd with the Sultan's feal, ordering that no officer o\\ 

 the road fliould preiuwe to detain hini^ or take any thing 

 from him, till he came to the houfe of lbrahm-4-l'Vohai/hi 

 (the name of this very agent) in Cobbe, where he was Iq 

 reft himfelf till further orders. In this fituation, feeing no 

 means of immediate relief, Mr. Brown began to feel impa^ 

 tience, which, as he continutjd in a ftate of inactivity, com- 

 municated the more rapidly its pernicious influence to his 

 health. On the fourteenth day he was attacked by a fever, 

 attended with extreme pain in the head. How long it lafted 

 he could not tell, having loft his recolleAion on the fcco^id 

 dav. It was afterwards recalled by the efi'e6t of a d}'fcntery, 

 which lifted for twg days, ai;d left him top weak to afllit 

 himfelf. 



A little more than a nionth elapfed, when, the fymptoms 

 appearing to di'.niniih, he again prefl'ed to be permitted to 

 vifit the refidence of the Sultan. But he had rpafou to rcr 

 grct his impatience ; for, having at length obt;iiued leave^ 

 he proceeded to El Fafher only to repeat his (ufierings.. 

 When he arrived at El Faflier, he was firft introduced tf? 

 the Melek Mifdlim, one of the principal miniliers. He 

 received him with a rude ftare, as an obje(Sl he was unufed 

 to, which \Y?s followed by a fmile of contempt and a^crflon. 



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