ija TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



of the caravans of Cus, Efne, and part of thofe of Kcnne.. 

 and Ebanout. . 



While at the wells of Legeta, my Arab, Abdel Gin, came 

 to me with his money, which had increafed now to nine- 

 teen fequins and a half. "What! laid I, Mahomet, are 

 you never fafe among your countrymen, neither. by fea 

 nor land ?" " Oh, no, replied Mahomet ; the difference, 

 when we were on board the boat, was, we had three thieves 

 only ; but, when ajfembled here, we fhall have above three 

 thoufand. — But I have an advice to give you." — " And my 

 ears," faid I, " Mahomet, are always open to advice, efpe- 

 daily in ftrange countries." — " Thefe people," continued 

 Mahomet, " are all afraid of the Atouni Arabs ; and, when 

 attacked, they will run away, and leave you in the hands 

 of thefe Atouni, who will carry off your baggage. There- 

 fore, as you have nothing to do with their corn, do not kill 

 any of the Atouni if they come, for that will be a bad affair, 

 but go afide, and let me manage. I will anfwer with my 

 life, though all the caravan mould be flripped ftark-naked, , 

 and you loaded with gold, not one article belonging to you 

 mall ■ be touched." I queftioned him very particularly a- 

 bout this intimation, as it was an affair of much confe-- 

 quence, and I was fo well fatisfied, that I refolved to con-, 

 form flricftly to it. 



In the evening came twenty Turks from Caramania, 

 which is that part of Afia Minor immediately on the fide of 

 the Mediterranean oppofite to the coaft of Egypt ; all of them 

 neatly and cleanly dreffed like Turks, all on camels, armed 

 with fwoi ds, a pair of piftols at their girdle, and a fhort neat 

 gun ; their arms were in very good order, with their flints 



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