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my turban, (fays he to Fidele) do you call me a liar?" Tid. 

 *' I did not call you a liar, only that Chriflian lied." J/}?u " I 

 fay, that every word he fpoke is truth, or I am no true be- 

 liever. Was not your fword drawn, and your fcabbar^ ly- 

 ing on the floor, when I entered the room ? Was there any 

 one prefent but him and you? Whom did you draw your 

 fword upon ?" " Pure merriment for a little amufement, 

 fays Fidele, turning to the Moullah, I was diverting myfelf 

 with the Chrillian, who came to give me medicines." " The 

 diverfion, I fancy, was over on your part, fays Soliman, my 

 fervant, when you threw away your fword, after drawing it, 

 and called upon all your fervants for affillance. Were not 

 your women at the door upon my entering it?" Fid. " Would 

 you have had me fhot in my own houfe by an infidel ? 

 Did he not prefent a piftol at me ?" J/}?2. "Lord ! Lord ! he 

 was only diverting himfelf, too? Did not you fee that? You 

 fhould have gone on with your merriment : — What llopt 

 you ?" " Look you, Shekh, faid I, your inward thoughts arc 

 feen by me. Did not you fend two meflengers to Shekh 

 Ibrahim in Atbara that very night, within thefe twelve 

 hours, defiring him to take me by force, while afleep, to 

 heal his wounded men ? Was this amufement, too ? Beware 

 in time, for every thought in your heart is known to me as 

 foon as it is formed." 



The flierrifTe muttered to himfelf, " Hakim y'Eref he 



is a learned man ; he knows thefe things." " Shekh Ibra- 

 him is returned to Sennaar, fays the Moullah, that is the 

 reafon why he fhould make hafte, and all this that has 

 paired is very improper. If a man diverts himfelf with 

 drawn fwords, is he not likely, when angry, to kill ? this 

 ought not to be ; fend the man away ; you can get camels 



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