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v/ith will not be eafily palled over either in Abyflinia or at. 

 Sennaar. I am neither fcrvant nor merchant ; and it has 

 been your ill-luck to try your wicked experiments upon a 

 man like me, who never in his life carried much money a- 

 bout him, becaujfe he never valued it." Moid. You muft 

 forget all, and I will be your friend with the Shckh, fince 

 you come from the Iherriffe of Mecca." « And I, too, fays 

 the other, for the kindnefs you have ihewed our brother 

 Ifmael there, in carrying him home from among the Kafrs 

 of Habefli ; and if Fidele cannot procure camels, we will 

 try and help him ; fo go in peace, .and get ready." 



We had fcarte got rid of this real danger, when the ap- 

 prehenfion of an imaginary one Uruck us violently. The 

 water at Teawa is llagnant in pools, and exceedingly bad. 

 Either that, or the bouza, a kind of new beer which they 

 fent us with our meat, had given all of us, at the fame time, 

 a violent diarrhoea, and I was tormented with a perpetual 

 thirll ever fince we had been overtaken by the fxmoom ; 

 and the bouza being acid, was not only more agreeable, 

 but, I thought, relieved me more than bad water ; in this, 

 therefore, 1 certainly had exceeded. When we found we 

 were all taken ill at the fame time, it came into our wife 

 heads that Shekh Fidele had given us poifon in our dinner, 

 and we were very much perplexed what we fhould do the 

 next day. None of us, therefore, tailed the meat fent us ; 

 when at night, our friemi, the black Have came, and to her 

 we frankly told our doubts. The poor creature fell into 

 fuch violent fits of laughing, which followed fo clofe the 

 pne upon the other, and lafied fo long, that I feared flie 

 would have expired upon the fpot. " It is the water, fays 

 .ilie; it docs fo to all flrangers ;" and then flie fell into an- 

 other 



