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perately tired, and peevifli at being dragged out, on fo fooi- 

 i£h an errand. 



Next morning, his fecretary Rifk came to me to the con- 

 vent. The Bey was not yet well ; and the idea ftill remain- 

 ed that he had been poifoned. Rifk told me the Bey had 

 great confidence in me. I afked him how the water had 

 operated ? He faid he had not yet taken any of it, that he 

 did not know how to make it, therefore he was come at 

 the defire of the Bey, to fee how it was made. 



I immediately fhewed him this, by infufing fome green 

 tea in fome warm water. But this was not all, he modeft- 

 Ij infimiated that I was to drink it, and fo vomit myfelf, in i 

 order to mew him how to do with the Bey. 



I excused myfelf from being patient and phyfician af 

 the fame time, and told him, I would vomit bim, which 

 would anfwer the fame purpofeof initruftion; neither was 

 this propofal accepted. 



The old Greek prieft, Father Chriflopher, coming.at the 

 fame time, we both agreed to vomit the Father, wh6 would 

 not confent, but produced a Caloyeros, or young monk, and : 

 we -forced him to take the water whether he would or not. 



As my favour with the Bey was now eftabliihed by my 

 midnight interviews, I thought of leaving my folitary 

 manfion at the convent.-- I defired Mr Rifk to procure me 

 peremptory letters of recommendation to Shekh Haman, 

 to the governor of Syene, Ibrim, and Deir, in Upper Egypt,' 

 I procured alio the fame from the janiffaries, to thefe three 



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