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for which I had rewarded liim handfomely in the inflant,^. 

 glad of tliat opportunity of confirming him in his duty. 



This man we fet off to Jlbhei ICriff, as a ftrangcr, with 

 orders not to come to us till the third day; for we were 

 weiKperfuadcd, whatever the end v/as to be, that our firft 

 reception would be a. gracious one. Indeed we were all of 

 us inclined to believe, that our fufpicions of Fidelc Shekh of 

 Atbara, and of his intentions towards us, were rather the 

 effe(5ts of the fear that Shekh Nile had infufed into us, than 

 any apprehenfion which we could reafonably form after fo 

 many promifes ; at the fame time, it was agreed on all 

 hands, that, life being at ilake, we could not be too careful 

 in providing means that could, if the worll happened, at. 

 the leall diminifh our rilk. 



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