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Chriftians like yourfelf % The Saracens having nothing in 

 their power there, we could carry you fafely to Suakem, but 

 the Bifhary are men not to be trufted, and we could go no 

 farther than to land you among them, and they would put 

 you to death, and laugh at you all the time they were tor- 

 menting you f. Now, if you want to viiit Abyfiinia, go 

 by Cofleir and Jidda, there you Chriftians command the coun- 

 try." 



* I told him, I apprehended, the Kennoufs, about the fecond 

 cataract, above Ibrim, were bad people. He laid the Ken- 

 noufs were, he believed, bad enough in their hearts, but 

 they were wretched flaves, and fervants, had no power in 

 their hands, would not wrong any body that was with his 

 people ; if they did, he would extirpate them in a day." 



" I told him, I was fatisfied of the truth of what was laid, 

 and afked him the bell way to ColTeir. He faid, the bell 

 way for me to go, was from Kenne, or Cuft, and that he 

 was carrying a quantity of wheat from Upper Egypt, while 

 Shekh Hamam was fending another cargo from his country, 

 both which would be delivered at ColTeir, and loaded there 

 for Jidda." 



" All that is right, Shekh, faid I, but fuppofe your people 

 meet us in the defert, in going to Cofleir, or otherwiie, how 

 mould we fare in that cafe? Should we fight?" "I have 



T 2 told 



* They were Shepherds Indigent, not Arabs. 

 f Qui Ludit in HofpttefixQ—W&s a chata£er long ago given to the Moors. 



Horace Ode. 



