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out about a quarter of an hour, when we were again call- 

 ed in. 



I cannot fay but I enjoyed heartily the fright I had vi- 

 iibly given him ; it feemed to me that Aylo's brother, Gue- 

 bia thud, was the only peribn whom he confulted, for it 

 was he alone that remained with him in his tent when we 

 entered ; he had changed his drefs ; a man was combing 

 his hair, and perfuming it ; and he had a new, white, fine 

 cotton cloth thrown about his middle loofely, which cover- 

 ed his legs and feet, his breafts, neck, and moulders, being 

 quite naked ; he rofe half up from his feat when I came in, 

 made me fit down on a cufhion befide him, and was going 

 to fpeak, when I refolved to have the firft word, for fear he 

 fhould engage me in more difcuffions. " Your continual 

 hurry, faid I, all the times I have feen you, has put it out of 

 my power till now to make you the acknowledgment it is 

 ordinary for ftrangers to prefent when they vifit great men 

 in their own country, and afk favours of them." I then took 

 a napkin, and opened it before him ; he feemed to have for- 

 got the prefent altogether, but from that moment I faw his 

 countenance changed, he was like another man. "OYagoube, 

 fays he, a prefent to me ! you mould be fenfible that is per- 

 fectly needlefs; you were recommended to me by the King 

 and the Ras ; you know, fays he, we are friends, and I 

 would do twenty times as much for yourfelf, without re- 

 commendation from either ; befides, I have not behaved to 

 you like a great man." 



It was not a very hard thing to conquer thefe fcruples ; 

 he took the feveral pieces of the prefent one by one in his 

 hands, and examined them; there was a crimfon filk fafh, 



3 made 



