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I thanked him for his kindnefs. We had all along pre- 

 ferred Uriel: friendfhip. Never fear the banks, laid I ; for 

 1 know if there is one in the way, you have nothing to do 

 but to bid him begone, and he will hurry to one fide direct- 

 ly. " I have had paffengers, fays he, who would believe 

 " that, and more than that, when I told them ; but there is 

 " no occalion I fee to wafte much time with you in fpeak- 

 " ing of miracles." 



" You are miftaken, Rais, I replied, very much miftaken; 

 " I love to hear modern miracles vaftly, there is always fome 

 " amufement in them." — " Aboard your Chriilian fhips, fays 

 " he, you always have a prayer at twelve o'clock, and drink 

 " a glafs of brandy ; fince you won't be a Turk like me, I 

 " wifh at leail you would be a Chriilian." — Very fairly put, 

 laid I, Haflan, let your veffel keep her wind if there is no 

 danger, and I lliall take care to lay in a ftock for the whole 

 voyage at the firlt town in which we can purchafe it. 



We paffed by a number of villages on the weftern 

 more, the eaftern fecming to be perfectly unpeopled : Firlt, 

 Fefhne, a eonfiderable place ; then * Miniet, or the ancient 

 Phyla?, a large town which had been fortified towards the 

 water, at leaft there were fome guns there. A rebel Bey 

 had taken poffeilion of it, and it was ufual to ftop here, the 

 river being both narrow and rapid ; but the Rais was in great 

 fpirits, and refolved to hold his wind, as I had defired him, 

 and nobody made us any fignal from fhore. 



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Signifies the Narrow PafTage, and is meant what Plyl* is in Latin. 



