^4 TRAVELS IN UPPEH 



pleasure, I should give him notice of it, that he 

 might himself have the charge of punishing him. 



On more than one occasion, my companions 

 and I had remarked that this Christian of Syria 

 betrayed us. I was going to have an evident 

 proof of his vile and dangerous spirit of intrigue, 

 and, in a very short time, I convinced myself of 

 his deep villany. It was indeed merely by chance 

 that I escaped the dreadful snare which had been 

 laid to destroy me and my companions, as will be 

 related in the following chapter. 



