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to decide by lot which shirt each should have. 

 Placing his face in his cloth he received from 

 Demetrius a piece of stick, and from Joannes a 

 small stone, without of course knowing the choice 

 of either, then uncovering his face, he placed upon 

 each shirt the representative of the individual that 

 should have it; and who, accordingly, received from 

 the hands of the Sultaun the, to them, very wel- 

 come present. After our interview with these 

 men, and we had returned to our own court-yard, 

 Cassim came in and remarked, it was very foolish of 

 Demetrius and his friend affecting Mahomedanism 

 in Tajourah, wh«i their religion and situation in 

 Shoa were so well known to him, he having fre- 

 quently seen them in that country. He seemed 

 rather vexed at the mistrust evinced by this cir- 

 cumstance ; and, appealing to us, asked if we 

 thought they would have been any the worse 

 treated had they come in the character of Chris- 

 tians. We found afterwards, that with all their 

 protestations of poverty, these men had brought 

 down several slave-girls, whom they were desirous 

 of carrying over to Mocha, and by their sale obtain 

 funds to carry them to Constantinople. This coming 

 to the ears of Mr. Cruttenden, he peremptorily 

 refused them a passage in his boat, and told them 

 that if they brought their slaves to Aden, their 

 relative positions would certainly be reversed, that 

 they would be imprisoned, and their bondswomen 

 be made free. 



