INTRODUCTION. *& 



which I intended to vifit, without any defign of continuing 

 or ftudying there : But the reader will afterwards fee of 

 what very material fervice this acquaintance was to me, fo 

 very elTential, indeed, that it contributed more to the fuccefs 

 of my views in Abyilinia than any other help that I obtain- 

 ed throughout the whole of it. This man's name was Pa- 

 dre Chriftophoro, or Father Chriftophcr. At my leaving Al- 

 giers, finding himfelf lefs conveniently fituated, he went to 

 Egypt, to Cairo, where he was promoted to be fecond in 

 rank under Mark, patriarch of Alexandria, where I after- 

 wards found him. 



Business of a private nature had at this time obliged -me 

 to prefent myfelf at Mahon, a gentleman having promifed 

 to meet me there ; I therefore failed from Algiers, having 

 taken leave oftheDey, who furnifhed me with every letter 

 that I afked, with ftrong and peremptory orders to all the 

 officers of his own dominions, preffing recommendatory 

 ones to the Bey of Tunis and Tripoli, ftates indepen- 

 dent, indeed, of the Dey of Algiers, but over which the 

 circumftances of the times had given him a confiderable in- 

 fluence. 



The violent difputes about the paffports had rather raif- 

 ed than lowered me in his efteem. The letters were given 

 with the bell grace poilible, and the orders contained in 

 them were executed mod exactly in all points during my 

 whole flay in Barbary. Being difappointed in the meeting 

 I looked for at Mahon, I remained three days in Quarantine 

 Ifland, though General Townfend, then deputy- governor, by 

 every civility and attention in his power, ftrove to induce 



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