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Captain Thomas Price, of the Lion of Bombay, had 

 been obHged, by his bufinefs with the government of Mec- 

 ca, to continue at Jidda till the feafon after I went from 

 thence to Abyflinia. I had already heard once from him, 

 and now a fecond time. He informed me my coun- 

 trymen had been in the greateft pain for me ; that feveral 

 reports had been current, both at Jidda and Mocha, of my 

 having been afTaffinated ; fometimes it was faid by the 

 Naybe of Mafuah ; fometimes that it had happened at 

 Gondar ; by others at Sennaar, in my return home. Cap- 

 tain Price wrote me in this laft letter, that, thinking I mull 

 be diflrelTcd for want of money, he had left orders with 

 Ibrahim SerafF, the Englifh broker at Jidda, to advance me 

 looo crowns, deiijing my draft to be fent to Ibrahim, di- 

 refted to him or his brother at Bombay, and to make it 

 payable to a gentleman of that name who lived in Smith- 

 field. Icannotomit mentioning thefe inilances of the philan- 

 thropy and generofity of Mr Price, to whom I bore no rela.- 

 tion, and who was but a common acquaintance, whom I 

 had acquired among my countrymen during my flay at 

 Jidda. The only title I had to this confideration was, that 

 he thought I was probably in diilrefs, and that as it was 

 in his power alone to relieve me, this in itfelf, to a noble 

 mind, conftituted a fufficient obligation. I do not believe 

 Captain Price was able to read a word of Latin, fo that fen- 

 timent in Terence, "Homo fum, nihil humani mihi alie- 

 " rJtim elTe puto," was as much an original in Mr Price's, 

 breail: as if it had never before been uttered. 



I TOLD A-letical Aga's fervant the bad news I had got 

 from Sennaar, and he agreed perfectly with the contents, 

 adding, that the journey was not pradlicable ; he declared 



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