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Ali Bey from Cairo. All the Greeks here who have confi- 

 derable polls, and are proud and vain enough, have yet de- 

 clared to us feveral times, (as Antonio my fervant did to 

 me lall night) that, in their own country, the beil of them 

 are not higher in rank than your lervants ; and that thofe 

 who hitherto have come into this country were no better. 

 We know then, and the king is fenfible, that in your own 

 country you are equal to the beft of us, and perhaps fu- 

 perior, and as fuch, even in thefe bad times, you have been 

 treated. Now, this being the cafe, you are wrong to ex- 

 pofe yourfelf like a common foldier. We all know, and 

 have feen, that you are a better horfeman, and Ihoot better 

 than we ; your gun carries farther, becauCe you ul'e leaden 

 bullets ; fo far is well ; but then you (hould manage this 

 fo as never to aift alone, or from any thing that can have 

 the appearance of a private motive ♦." " hir, ("aid I, you 

 know that when 1 firfl came recommended, as you fay, 

 into this country, Ayto Aylo, the moll: peaceable, as well 

 as the wifeft man in it, the Ras, and I believe yourfelf, 

 but certainly many able and confiderable men who were 

 fo good as to patrnnize me, did then advife the putting me 

 into the king's fervice and houfehold, as the only means 

 of keeping me from robbery and infult. You faid that I 

 could not be fafe one inilar.t after the king left Gondar, 

 being a fmgle man, who was fuppofed to have brought 

 money with him ; that therefore I muft connect myfclf 

 witli young noblemen, officers of confcquence about court, 

 whofe authority and friendfliip would keep ill-difpoled 

 people in awe. The king obferving in me a facility of 



managing 



* He meant, from tlie infiigaiicn of Ozoro Ellher. 



