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upon my going to Shaddly, did furnifh me with camels and 

 neceiraries, fo much of the chain fliould he returned. 



It was the 5th of September that we were all prepared to 

 leave this capital of Nubia, an inhofpitable country from 

 the beginning, and which, every day we continued in it, 

 had engaged us in greater difficulties and dangers. We 

 flattered ourfelves, that, once difengaged from this bad ftep, 

 the greareil part of our fufFerings was over ; for we appre- 

 hended nothing hut from men, and, with very great realbn, 

 thought we had feen the worfl of them. 



In the evening I received a meffage from the king to 

 come dirc(5tly to the palace. I accordingly obeyed, taking 

 two fervants along, with me, and found him fitting in a 

 little, low chamber, very neatly fitted up with chintz, or 

 printed calUco curtains, of a very gay and glaring pattern. 

 He was fmoaking with a very long Perfian pipe through 

 water, was aljne, and feeraed rather grave than in ill-hu- 

 m.our. lie gave me his hand to kifs as ufual, and, after 

 paufing a moment without fpeaking, (during which I was 

 ilanding before him) a fiave brought me a little ftcol and 

 fet it down jufl oppofite to him ; upon which he faid, in a 

 low voice, fo that I could fcarcely hear him, " Fudda, fit 

 down," pointing to the ftool. I fat down accordingly. 

 *' You are going, I hear, fays he, to Adelan." I anfwered, 

 " Yes." " Did he fend tor you ?" 1 faid, " No ; but, as I 

 wanted to return to E,uypf, I expcded letters from him in 

 anfwcr to thofe \ broui^ht from Cairo." He told me, Ali 

 Bey that wrote thefe letters was dead ; and aflced me if I 

 knew Mahomet Abcu Dahab ? Tagotibe. "Pcrfe^*l:ly ; I was well 

 jicquaintcd with him and the other uicmbcrs ofgovcrn- 

 I ment. 



