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and I will fee him in the morning," Ah ! Mahomet, cries 

 SoHman, is, that you? I thought you had hada narrow enough 

 efcape in the palace the other day, but Hay a little, a fer- 

 vant is gone over the back wall to call the Gindi, and we 

 are here niunerous enough to defend this houfe till morning 

 againft all the fervants the king has, fo do not attempt to 

 break the door, and Yagoube will go to the king with the 

 Gindi. 



At this time one of my fervants fired a piilol in the air 

 out of an upper window, upon which they ail ran off. They 

 feemed to be about ten or twelve in number, and left three 

 handfpikes behind them. The noife of the piilol brought 

 the guard, or patrols, in aboiu half an hour, who carried 

 intelligence to the Sid el Coom, our friend, by whom 1 was 

 informed in the morning, that lie had found them all out, 

 and put them in irons ; that Mahomet, the king's fervant, 

 who met us at Teawa, was one of them ; and that there 

 was no poffibility now of concealing this from Adclan, who 

 would order him to be impaled. 



Things were now come to fuch a crifls that I was de- 

 termined to leave my inftruments and papers with Kinou, 

 Adelan's brother, or with the Sid el Cpom, while I went to 

 Shaddly to fee Adelan. But firll I thought it neceilary to 

 apply to Hagi Belal to try what funds we could raife to 

 provide the neceifaries for our journey. I flicwtd him the 

 letter of Ibrahim, the Enghfli broker of Jidda, of v/hich 

 before he had received a copy and repeated advices, and 

 told him I Ihould want 200 fequins at ieail, for my camels 

 avid provifions, as well as for fome prefents that I lliuuld 

 have occaiion for, to make my way to the great men m At- 



bara. 



