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The cadi then afkcd me, " If I knew when Haguige Ma-i 

 giu;;c was to come ?" Remembering my old learned friend' 

 at Teawa, I fcarce could forbear laughing. " I have no 

 Willi to know any thing about him, faid I ;. I hope thofo- 

 days are far off,, and w-iil not. happen in my time." "Whac 

 do your books fay concerning him ? (fays he, affecting:, a 

 great look of wifdom) Do they agree with ours ?" " I don't' 

 know that, faid I, till I hear what is written in your books." 

 " Hagiuge Magiuge, fays he, are little people,. not fo big, asf 

 bees, or like the zimb, or fly of Sennaar, that come in great 

 fwarms out of the earth, aye, in multitudes that cannot be 

 counted ; two of their chiefs are to ride upon an afs, and eve- 

 ry hair of that afs is to be a pipe, and every pipe is to play a 

 different kind of mufic, and all that hear and follow tliem 

 are carried to hell." " I know them not, faid. I, and, in the 

 name of the Lord, I fear them not, were they twice as little 

 as you fay they are, and twice as numerous. I truft in God 

 I fhall ne\^r be fo fond of mufic as to go to hell after an afs 

 for all the tunes that he or they can play." The king 

 laughed violently.. I rofe to go away, fori was heartily ti- 

 red of the converfation. I whifpered the AbylFmian fervant 

 in Amharic, to alk when I fhould bring a. trifle I had to 

 offer the king. He faid, Not that night, as I fhould be tired, 

 but defired that I fhould now go home, and he would fend 

 me notice when to come. I accordingly went away, and 

 found a number of people in the ftreet,.all having fome taunt 

 or affronting matter to fay. I paffed through the great 

 fquare before the palace, and could not help fliuddering-, 

 upon reflecftion, at what had happened in that fpot to the 

 Unfortunate M. du Roule and his companions, though un«. 

 ■der a protei5lion v/hich fhould have fecured them from all 

 datjgcr, every part of which I was then unprovided with. 



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