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had been for charity, to be allowed to do my bufinefs, you 

 would have been glad for my making no worfe figure to- 

 night than I do with this carpet upon my head." 



" My dear Strates, faid I, it is the fortune of war, and 

 many princes and great men, who, at this moment I am 

 fpeaking to you, live in the enjoyment of every thing they 

 can delire, before a month expires, perhaps, will be ftretch- 

 ed on the cold ground, a prey to the birds and wild beafts of 

 the field, without fo much as a carpet to cover them fuch as 

 you have. You as yet are only frightened ; though, it is 

 true, a man may be as well killed as frightened to death." 

 " Sir, fays he, in a violent rage, that I deny, it is not the 

 fame ? a man that is killed feels no more, but he that is 

 frightened to death, as I have been to-day, fuffers ten thou- 

 fand times more than if he had been killed outright." — 

 " "Well, faid I, Strates, I will not difpute with you ; I believe 

 they fuffer much the fame after they are dead ; but you, 

 I thank God, have only loft your cloaths, and you are now 

 moil comfortably, though not ornamentally, wrapped up 

 in my carpet ; as foon as we get to Dara, you mail be dreff- 

 ed from head to foot, by Negade Ras Mahomet, at the ex>- 

 pence of the king, in better cloaths than you ever wore in 

 your life, at leaft fince I knew you ; only give me your gun 

 till your pafiion is allayed ; you know it is a valuable one 

 which I never quit." 



He then gave me the gun fullenly enough ; and I con- 

 tinued, " I will this very night prelent you with one of the 

 handfomeft Turkifh fames that Mahomet has to fell. I faw 

 him in the king's houie, with many new ones that he had 

 procured, a little before 1 went to Emfras." I cannot pro- 

 tend. 



