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to meet Saloome at the bank of the river, and making a 

 mark on the ground with his knife, declared that his pa- 

 tience was quite exhaufled by what he had been witnefs to 

 at Mafuah and Dixan ; and if now Saloome, or any other 

 man belonging to the Naybe, offered to pafs that mark, he 

 would bind him hand and foot, and carry him to a place 

 where he mould be left tied to a tree, a prey to the lion and 

 hyama. They all returned, and there our perfecution from 

 the Naybe ended. But it was very evident, from Achmet's 

 behaviour and difcourfe, had we gone by Dobarwa, which 

 was the road propofed by the Naybe, our fufferings would 

 not have been as yet half finiihed, unlefs they had ended 

 with our lives. 



We remained under this tree the night of the 25th ; it 

 will be to me a ftation ever memorable, as the firfl where 

 I recovered a portion of that tranquillity of mind to which 

 I had been a ftranger ever fince my arrival at Mafuah. We 

 had been joined by about twenty loaded afTes driven by 

 Moors, and two loaded bulls ; for there is a fmall fort of 

 this kind called Ber, which they make life of as beafts of 

 burden. I called all thefe together to recommend good 

 order to them, defiring every one to leave me that was not 

 refolved to obey implicitly the orders I mould give them, 

 as to the hours and places of encamping, keeping watch at 

 night, and fetting out in the morning. I appointed Yaline 

 the judge of all difputes between them ; and, if the differ- 

 ence mould be between Yafme and any one of them, or, if 

 they fhould not be content with his decifion, then my de- 

 termination was to be final. They all confented with great 

 marks of approbation. We then repeated the fedtah, and 

 fwore to fland by each other till the laft, without confider- 



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