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lieve, that to fend me to Hamazen is to rob and murder me 

 out of light." — " Dog of a Chriftian !" fays Emir Achmet, 

 putting his hand to his knife, " if the Nay be was to mur- 

 der you, could he not do it here now this minute ?" — " No," 

 fays the man, who had called himfelf Sardar, " he could 

 not ; I would not fuffer any fuch thing. Achmet is the 

 ftranger's friend, and recommended me to-day to fee no in- 

 jury done him; he is ill, or would have been here himfelf." 



" Achmet," faid I, " is my friend, and fears God ; and 

 were I not hindered by the Naybe from feeing him, his fick- 

 nefs before this would have been removed. I will go to 

 Achmet at Arkeeko, but not to Hamazen, nor ever again to 

 the Naybe here in Mafuah. Whatever happens to me muft 

 befal me in my own houfe. Confider what a figure a few 

 naked men will make the day that my countrymen afk the 

 reafon of this cither here or in Arabia." I then turned my 

 back, and went out without ceremony. " A brave man !"" 

 I heard a voice fay behind me, " Wallah Englefe! True Englifh, 

 by G — d !" I went away exceedingly diflurbed, as it was 

 plain my affairs were coming to a crifis for good or for evil. 

 I obferved, or thought I obferved, all the people fhun me. I 

 was, indeed, upon my guard, and did not wifli them to come 

 near me ; but, turning down into my own gateway, a man 

 palled clofe by me, faying diilinctly in my ear, though in a 

 low voice, firfl in Tigre and then in Arabic, " Fear nothing., or, 

 Be not afraid." This hint, lliort as it was, gave me no fmalL 

 courage. 



I had fcarcely dined, when a fervant came with a letter 

 from Achmet at Arkeeko, telling me how ill he had been t 

 and how forty he was that I refufed to come to fee him, as 



Mahomet 



