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I cannot help here accufing myfelf of what, doubtlefs, 

 may be well reputed a very great fin. I was fo enraged at 

 the traitorous part which Haffan had acted, that, at parting, 

 I could not help faying to Ibrahim, " Now, Shekh, I have 

 done every thing you have defired, without ever expecting 

 fee, or reward; the only thing I now aik you, and it is pro- 

 bably the laft, is, that you revenge me upon this Haffan, 

 who is every day in your power." Upon this, he gave me 

 his hand, faying, " He fhall not die in his bed, or I fhall 

 never fee old age," 



We now returned all in great fpirits to Coffeir, and I ob- 

 served that my unexpected connection with the Ababde had 

 given me an influence in that place, that put me above all 

 fear of perfonal danger, efpecially as they had feen in the 

 defert, that the Atouni were my friends alfo, as reclaiming 

 this Arab fhewed they really were. 



The Bey infilled on my flipping with him. At his defire I 

 told him the whole ftory, at which he feemed to be much fur- 

 prifed, faying, feveral times, "Menullah! Menullah! Muck- 

 toub !" It is God's doing, it is God's doing, it was written fo. 

 And, when I had fmifhed, he faid to me, " I will not leave 

 this traitor with you to trouble you further ; I will oblige 

 him, as it is his duty, to attend me to Furfhout." This he 

 accordingly did ; and, to my very great furprife, though he 

 might be affured I had complained of him to Shekh Ham- 

 am, meeting me the next day, when they were all ready to 

 <lepart, and were drinking coffee with the Bey, he gave me 

 a flip of paper, and defired me, by that direction, to buy him 

 a fabre, which might be procured in Mecca. It feems it is 

 the manufacture of Perfia, and, though I do not omderftand 



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