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Having made fome little acknowledgment to thofe who 

 had conducted me through the ruins in great fafety, I re- 

 turned to the Canja, or rather to my tent, which I placed in 

 the firlt firm ground. I faw, at fome diftance, a well-drefTed. 

 man, with a white turban, and yellow ihawl covering it, 

 and a number of ill-looking people about him. As I 

 thought this was fome quarrel among the natives, I took 

 no notice of it, but went to my tent, in order to rectify my 

 quadrant for obfervation. 



As foon as our Rais faw me enter my tent, he came with 

 expremons of very great indignation. " What fignifies it, 

 faid he, that you are a friend to the Bey, have letters to 

 every body, and are at the door of Furfhout, if yet here is 

 a man that will take your boat away from you?" 



" Softly, foftly, I anfwered, Hatfan, he may be in the 

 right. If Ali Bey, Shekh Hamam, or any body want a boat 

 for public fervice, I muft yield mine. Let us hear." 



Shekh Hamam and Ali Bey! fays he; why it is a fool, an 

 idiot, and an afs ; a fellow that goes begging about, and fays 

 lie is a faint,; but he is a natural fool, full as much knave 

 as fool however ; he is a thief, I know him to be a thief." 



If he is a faint, faid I, Hagi Haffan, as you are another, 

 known to be fo all the world over, I don't fee why I ihould 

 interfere ; faint againft faint is a fair battle." — " It is the 

 Cadi, replies he, and no one elfe." 



u Come away with me, faid I, Haffan, and let us fee this 

 cadi ; if it is the cadi, it is not the fool, it may be the knave." 



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