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be pleafant, and I do affure you it muft be very pernicious: 
to your health, if there was nothing elfe in it. At the battle 
of Fagitta, though you had no intention to retreat, yet you: 
went half a day backward, to higher ground, and purer. 
air, to avoid the ftench of the field, but here in the city you. 
heap up carrion about your houfes, where is your conti-. 
nual refidence.” 
“ Tur Ras has given orders, fays he gravely, to remove. 
all the dead bodies before the Epiphany, when we go down: 
to keep that feftival; and wath away all: this pollution in: 
the clear-running water of the Kahha:. but tell me now,. 
Yagoube, is it really poflible that you can take fuch,things.- 
as thefe fo much.to heart?. You are a. brave man; we all: 
know. yow are, and: have feen it:. we have all blamed you, . 
ftranger as you are in this country, for. the. little care you. 
take of yourfelf; and yet about thefe things you are as. ~ 
much affected.as the moft cowardly. woman, girl, or child 
could be.”—* Sir, faid I, Ido not know if | am brave or not ;- 
but if to fee men tortured or murdered, or to. live among 
dead bodies-without concern, be courage, I have it not, nor 
defire to have it :: war is the profeflion.of noble minds ; it is. 
a glorious one; it is.the fcience and occupaticn of kings ;. 
and many wife and many humane men have dedicated their.: 
whole life to the ftudy of it in every country; it foftens 
men’s manners, by obliging them to fociety, to affift, be- 
friend, and-even fave-one another, though at their own rifk. 
and danger. A barbarian of that profeflion fhould be point. 
ed at. Obferve Ayto Engedan, (who came at that very in- 
 ftant into the room) there is a young man, faid I, who, with 
the bravery, has alfo the humanity and gentlenefs of my 
countrymen that.are foldiers.” fy 
ENGEDAN 
