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iia the leaft, the import of the terms, I give it to the reader 

 that he may know by what defcription he is to buy an ex- 

 cellent fabre. It is called Suggaro Tabanne Harefanne A- 

 gemmi, Jbr Sidi Hajfan ofFurJloout. 



Although pretty much ufed to flifle my refentmenr 

 upon impertinences of this kind, I could not, after the trick 

 he had played me with the Ababde, carry it indifferently ; 

 I threw the billet before the Bey, faying to Haffan, " A fword 

 of that value would be ufelefs and mifemployed in the hand 

 of a coward and a traitor, fuch as furely you mull be fen- 

 fible I know you to be." He looked to the Bey as if appeal- 

 ing to him, from the incivility of the obfervation ; ,but the 

 Bey, without fcruple, anfwered, " It is true, it is true what 

 he fays, HafTan ; if I was in Ali Bey's place, when you dared 

 ufe a ftranger of mine, or any flranger, as you have done 

 him, I would plant you upon a fharp ftake in the market- 

 place, till the boys in the town floned you to death ; but 

 he has complained of you in a letter, and I will be awitnefs 

 againft you before Hamam, for your conduct is not that of 

 a Mujfulman*' 



While I was engaged with the Ababde, a veflTel was 

 feen in diflrefs in the offing, and all the boats went out 

 and towed her in. It was the veflel in which the twenty- 

 five Turks had embarked, which had been heavily loaded. 

 Nothing is fo dreadful as the embarkation in that fea ; for 

 the boats have no decks ; the whole, from ftern to Item, be- 

 ing filled choak-full of wheat, the wafte, that is the fiope of 

 theveiTel,betweentheheightofherftemandftern,isfilledupby 

 oneplankon each fide, which is all that is above the furface 

 of the waves. Sacks, tarpaulins, or mats, are flrowed along 



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