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more different from the Catholic religion than your's is: 

 jhat there has been more blood fried between the Catholics 

 and us, on account of the difference of religion, than ever 

 was between you and the Catholics in this country ; even at 

 this day, when men are become wifer and cooler in many 

 parts of the world, it would be full as fa ft for a Jefuit to 

 preach in the market-place of Gondar, as for any prieft of 

 my religion to prefent himfelf as a teacher in the mod civi- 

 lized of Frank or Catholic countries." — " How is it then," 

 fays fhe, "that you don't believe in miracles?" 



" I fee, Madam," faid I, " Ayto Aylo has informed you of 

 .a few words that fome time ago dropt from me. I do cer- 

 tainly believe the miracles of Chrift and his apoftles, other- 

 wife I am no Chriftian ; but I do not believe thefe miracles 

 of latter times, wrought upon trifling occafions, like fports, 

 and jugglers tricks." — " And yet," fays fhe, " our books are 

 full of them." — " I know they are," faid I, " and fo are thofe 

 of the Catholics : but I never can believe that a faint con- 

 verted the devil, who lived, forty years after, a holy life as 

 a monk ; nor the ftory of another faint, who, being fick and 

 hungry, caufed a brace of partridges, ready-roafted, to fly 

 upon his plate that he might eat them." — " He has been 

 reading the Synaxar," fays Ayto Aylo. " I believe fo," fays 

 lhe, fmiling ; " but is there any harm in believing too much, 

 and is not there great danger in believing too little ?" — " Cer- 

 tainly," continued I; "but what I meant to fay to Ayto Aylo 

 was, that I did not believe laying a picture upon Welled 

 Hawaryat would recover him when delirious in a fever." 

 She anfwered, " There was nothing impoflible with God." 

 I made a bow of affent, wifliing heartily the converfation 

 might end there. 



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