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glafs, flat in the fides like the amber-beads formerly ufed 

 by the better fort of the old women- peafants in England; 

 All our beads were then rejected, by fix or feven dozen of 

 the fhrille'ft tongues I ever heard. They decried our mer- 

 chandize in fuch a manner, that I thought they meant to 

 condemn them as unfaleable, to be confifcated or deftroyed. 



Let every man, travelling in fuch countries as thefe, re- 

 member, that there is no perfon, however mean, who is 

 in his company, that does not merit attention, kindnefs, 

 and complacency. Let no man in travelling exalt himfelf 

 above the loweft, in a greater degree than he is able to do 

 fuperior fervice ; for many that have thought themfelves 

 fafe, and been inattentive to this, have perifhed by the un- 

 fufpected machinations of the loweft and meaner! wretch 

 among them. Few have either made fuch long or fuch fre- 

 quent journies of this kind as I, and I fcarcely recollect, any 

 perfon fo infignificant that, before the end of a moderate 

 journey, had not it in his power to return you like for like 

 for your charity or unkindnefs, be the difference of your 

 quality and condition what it would.. 



Of all the men in our company, none had any flock of 

 the true fmall fky-blue beads, and no one had one grain of 

 the large yellow- glafs ones, but the poor Moor, whofe afs 

 was bit by the hyaena near Lila, and whofe cargo, likely to 

 be left behind at the foot of Taranta, I had diftributed a- 

 mong the reft of the affes of the caravan ; and, leaving the 

 wounded one for the price he would fetch, had next day 

 bought him another at Halai, with which, fince that time, 

 he continued his journey. That fellow had felt the obliga- 

 tion in filence ; and. not one word, but Good- day, and Good- 



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