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face of the earth in fearch of wifdom, and are always to 

 do fo till Hagiuge Magiuge come, and then there will be 

 an end of the world." I jnade a bow of aflent to the Moul- 

 lah, and all the reft turned up their eyes to heaven in 

 wonder of fo much learning, repeating their ufual ejacu- 

 lation, " Ullah Akbar!" God is great. I now took my 

 leave of them, and was going home, when the younger 

 Iherriffe called after me, and faid, " I fuppofe, now you are 

 all at peace, we fliall not fee the fign that you foretold us 

 was to appear in the heavens to-day," " I fhould be 

 thought a liar if it did not appear, faid I ; do you wifh to 

 fee it ?" — " I wifli to fee it, fays he, if it will do no harm." — 

 " Then, replied I, you fhall fee it, and it Ihall do no harm 

 now. I hope it will bring health and happinefs, and a 

 good crop to Teawa, and all the kingdom of Sennaar. Ga 

 home, while I order my affairs. Something more than 

 two hours after this I will come to you, and it will then 

 appear. They all went away, and, as I thought by their 

 looks, they would have been better fatisfied that affair had; 

 been forgot, the Shekh faying peevifhly to the fherriffe^ 

 " Let him mind his affairs and his journey ; what is the; 

 vfe of thefe things now ?" 



I HAD redlified my watch by obfervation. I knew 1 

 could not be far wrong, having fccn in the ephemerides. 

 the hour the echpfe was to begin. I pafTed a corner of 

 the Shekh's houfe, and went in at the back-door. He was 

 there with his ufual friends, the Moullah, the fherrifte, the 

 Kaiya, and one or two more. The flierriffe afke'd me 

 where the fign would appear ; and the Moullah, if there 

 would be any thunder and lightning ? I told them there 

 would be nothing difagreeable at all.. I went to the door,, 



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