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all, drawing his fword, that we Ihould inllantly provide 

 him with a new fcabbard, his own being but a piece of 

 common leather, which he threw with a kind of indigna- 

 tion down upon the floor. Till that time I had been wri- 

 ting thefe very memoirs, at leaft the journal of the day. I 

 was not any way afraid of one drunkard, but laid down, 

 my pen, wondering where this infolence was to end. Before 

 I had time to fpeak a word, I heard my old Turk, the flier- 

 rifTe, Hagi Ifmael, fay, " You are of the Jehaina, are you ? 

 then I am of the Daveina ;" and with that he caught the 

 ftranger by the throat, taking his fword from him, which 

 he threw out of the houfe, after calling the owner violently 

 upon the floor. The fellow crept out upon all-four, and, as 

 foon as he had picked up his fword, attempted again to en- 

 ter the houfe, which Soliman perceiving, fnatched his own 

 Ihort, crooked fword, from a pin where it hung, and ran 

 readily to meet him, and would very fpeedily have made 

 an end of him, had I not cried out, " For God's fake. Soli- 

 man, don't hurt him ; remember where you are." Indeed, 

 there was little reafon for the caution ; for when the Arab 

 obferved a drawn fword in the Turk's hand, he prefent- 

 ly ran away towards the town, crying, Ullah ! Ullah I 

 Ullah ! which was, God ! God ! God ! an exclamation of ter- 

 ror, and we faw no more of him ; whilft, inftead of a new 

 fcabbard, he left his old one in the houfe. Seeing at once 

 the cowardice and malice of our enemies, we were now 

 apprehenfive of fire, things were come to fuch an extre- 

 mity ; and as our houfe was compofcd of nothing but dry 

 canes, it feemed the only obvious way of defti'oying us. 



On the 9th, in the morning I fent Soliman with the 

 fcabbard to Fidele, and a grievous complaint againft the 



fuppofed 



