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be pleafant, and I do afllire you it mull be very pernieioiij 

 to your health, if there was nothing eKc in it. At the battle 

 of Fagitta, though you hadho intention to retreat, yet you 

 went half a day backward, to higher ground, and purer 

 air, to avoid the ftench of the field, but here in the city yoii 

 heap up carrion about your houfes, where is your conti- - 

 nual refidence." 



" The Ras has given orders,' fays he gravely, to remove 

 all the dead bodies before the Epiphany, whea we go down 

 to keep that feftival, and wafli . away all . this pollution iii 

 the clear-running water' of' the Kahha : -but tell me now, 

 Yagoube, is it really poffibk thatyou' can take fuch thing? 

 as thefe fo much to heart ? You are a brave man ; we all 

 know you are, and have feen it: we have all blamed you, 

 ilranger as you are in this country, for the little care you 

 take of yourfelf; and yet about thefe things you are as 

 much alfedled as the- moft cowardly woman, girl, or child 

 could be," — " Sir, faid I, Ido not- know if I am brave or not ; 

 but if to fee men tortured or- murdered, or to live among 

 dead bodies without concern, be courage, I have it not, nor 

 defire to have it : war is the profeiHon of noble minds ; it is 

 a glorious one; itisthe fcicnce and occupation of kings ; 

 and many wife and many humane men liave dedicated their 

 whole life to the ftudy of it in every "* country ; it foftens 

 men's manners, by obliging them to fociety,. to affift, be- 

 friend, and even fave one another, though at their own rifle 

 and danger. A barbarian of that profefTion fliould be point- 

 ed -at. Obferve Ayto Erigedan, (who came at that very in- 

 ftant into the room) there is a young man, faid I, who, with 

 the bravery, has alfo the humanity and gentlenefs of my 

 Gountrymen that are foldiers," 



Engedan 



