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By this time the faint had got into the boat, and fat for- 

 ward ; he was an ill-favoured, low, fick-like man, and feem- 

 ed to be almoft blind. 



You mould not make rafh prcmifes, faid I to the cadi, 

 for this one you made you never can perform ; I am not go- 

 ing to Girge. Ali Bey, whofejlave you are, gave me this boat, 

 but told me, I was not to fhip either faints or cadies. There 

 is my boat, go a-board if you dare ; and you, Hagi Harlan, 

 let me fee you lift an oar, or loofe a fail, either for the cadi 

 or the faint, if I am not with them. 



I went to my tent, and the Rais followed me. " Hagi 

 u Harlan, faid I, there is a proverb in my country, It is bet- 

 " ter to flatter fools than to fight them : Cannot you go to 

 " the fool, and give him half-a-crown ? will he take it, do 

 " you think, and abandon his journey to Girge? after- 

 ** wards leave me to fettle with the cadi for his voyage thi- 

 " ther." 



" He will take it with all his heart, he willkifs your hand 

 " for half-a-crown, fays Haffan." 



"Let him have half-a-crown from me, faid I, and deiire 

 " him to go about his bufmefs, and intimate that I give him 

 M it in 'charity; at fame time expect compliance with the 

 " condition." 



In the interim, a Cliriflian Copht came into the tent: 

 " Sir, faid he, you don't know what you are doing ; the cadi 

 " is a great man, give him his prefent, and have done with 

 « him."" 



