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gree of nobility much refpcdted among the Arabs, diiTin=- 

 guifhcd by wearing a green turban; The Davcina, when 

 they burnt all the country between Teawa and Bcyla, faved 

 this man's houfe,effecls,and crop, in veneration of his fancfti*^ 

 ty. Thefe two were fitting on each i\de of Shekh Fidelej 

 and before him ftood two black Haves holding each a mon<i 

 ftronis long broad-Iword. I approached thefe powers, ecs- 

 GleliaPiical and civil, with great compoiure, as if nothing 

 had happened ; but Ifmael, the Turk, had almoft fpoiied 

 my gravity, for, feeing the fwords in the men's hands be- 

 fore Fidele, he faid, in his barbarous language, loud enough 

 to be heard, " O, ho, they have got their fcabbards upon 

 their fwords to-day." 



FiDELE feemed to have a very ferene countenance, till 

 we approached nearer, when, feeing the piftols in our gir* 

 dies, he appeared rather difcompofcd, and probably- he 

 thought the bhmderbufs was not far off; I made him, how- 

 ever, a bow, and iliook him by the hand; I iikewife made an- 

 other bow to their two holineiTes. As people of that ianc- 

 tity feldom chofe to have, even their cloaths, touched by 

 unbelievers in public, I made no further advance towards 

 them. 1 he fherrifie no fooner faw Ifmael's turban, than 

 he got up, took him in his arms, and, as he was an older 

 man than himfelf, though all in rags, kifTed his forehead 

 with great refpe^t. This was returned by Hagi Ifmae}, 

 firll killing his forehead and then his hand ; after which 

 the Moullah did the fame, as I thought with rather Icfs 

 ceremony, ifmael gave a very flight falutation of Salama 

 to the Shekh, and we ail fat down. 



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