H 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



" my religion teaches me to do good to all men, even to- 

 " enemies, without reward, or without confidering whether 

 " I ever mould fee them again." 



" Now, after the drugs I fent you by Ibrahim, tell me, 

 " and tell me truly, upon the faith of an Arab, would your 

 *' people, if they met me in the defert, do me any wrong, 

 " more than now, as I have eat and drank with you to-day ?" 



The old man Nimmer, on this rofe from his carpet, and 

 fat upright, a more ghaflly and more horrid figure I ne- 

 ver faw. " No, faid he, Shekh, curfed be thofe men of my 

 people, or others, that ever fliall lift up their hand againfl 

 you, either in the Defert or the Tel/, i. e. the part of Egypt which 

 is cultivated. As long as you are in this country, or between; 

 this and CofTeir, my fbn mail ferve you with heart and hand;; 

 one night of pain that your medicines freed me from, would; 

 not be repaid, if I was to follow you on foot to Mcflir, that 

 is Cairo." 



I then thought it a proper time to enter into conver- 

 fation about penetrating into Abymnia that way, and they 

 difcufTed it among themfelves in a very friendly, and at : 

 the fame time in a very fagacious and fenfible manner. 



" We could carry you to El Haimer, (which I underflood 

 to be a well in the defert, and which I afterwards was 

 much better acquainted with to my forrow.) We could 

 conduct you fo far, fays old Nimmer, under God, without 

 fear of harm, all that country was Chriflian once, and we- 



Chriitians 



