6i6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



All now was confufion. I cried, " Hagi Ifmacl.for God's 

 fake forbear." Every body fpoke, no body heard. The 

 Mcullah had crofTed the room and fat down befide the Aga, 

 who laid to him very flernly, " What Yagoube may do, 

 and what he may not do, in Syene, has never been confided 

 to you, though it has been to me, and 1 have not thought it 

 neceflary ro take your advice upon it. This man is the fer- 

 vant of a king. Were you to infult him in Conftantint-ple, 

 his complaint would coftamuch greater man than you his 

 life, even ihis day before fun-fet. Who taught you to call 

 him Kafr whom you had never before feen, and then a- 

 biife ihe janizary, who, befides, is a Iherriffe, and an aged 

 man, whole hand better men than you kifs when they meet 

 him in the ftreet ? Go home and learn wifdom, fmce you 

 canrot teach it ; at leaft, don't make the grand fignior's 

 caflle the fcene of your abufe and folly." The Moullah up- 

 on this rebuke departed, very much humbled. 



As Michael had brought the drawings, I turned to the 

 trees and flowers. The Aga was greatly pleafed with them, 

 and laughed, putting them up to his nole as if fmelling 

 them. They did not ofi'end him, as they were not the 

 likenefs of any thing that had life. I then Ihewed him a 

 filh, and reached the book to an old man with a long beard, 

 but who had a very chearful countenance. He looked at it 

 wiih great furprife. '] he Aga had feveral times called him 

 his father. " Do not be angry, fays he to me, if I afjc you a 

 quellion, I am not fuch a man as the Moullah that is gone." 

 " 1 will anfwer all your qucftions-with plcafure, faid 1, and, 

 in your turn, you mull not take the anfwer ill." " No, no, 

 liiid two or three of them, Hagi Soliman knows better." So- 

 Mmuf!. " Do you not believe, fays he, that that fiih will rife 

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