250 TRAVELS.TO DISCOVER 
CapTAIn Tuomas Pricez, of the Lion of Bombay, had? 
been obliged, by his bufinefs with the government of Mec-- 
ca, to continue at Jidda till the feafon after I went from: 
thence to Abyflinia. I had already heard‘once from him, 
and now a fecond time: He informed me my coun- 
trymen had been in the greateft pain for me; that feveral: 
reports had been current, both at Jidda and*Mocha, of my 
having been aflaflinated; fometimes it was faid by the: 
Naybe of Mafuah; fometimes that it had happened art: 
Gondar; by others at Sennaar, in my return home.. Cap-. 
tain Price wrote me in this laft letter, that, thinking I mutt: 
be diftreffed for wantof money, he had left orders with: 
Ibrahim Seraff, the Englifh broker at Jidda, to advance me: 
1000 crowns, defiring my draft to be fent to Ibrahim, di-. 
rected to him or his brother at Bombay, and to make it 
payable to a gentleman of that name who lived in Smith- 
field. Icannot omit mentioning thefe inftances of the philan~- 
thropy and generofity of Mr Price,. to whom I bore.no rela- 
tion, and who was but a common acquaintance, whom I 
had acquired among my countrymen during my flay at 
Jidda. The only title I had to this confideration was, that 
he thought Iwas probably in diftrefs, and that as it was 
in his power alone to- relieve me, this in itfelf, to a noble 
mind, conftituted a fufficient obligation. I do not believe - 
Captain Price was able to read a word of Latin, fo that fen- 
timent in Terence, ‘Homo fum, nihil humani mihi alie- 
“ num effe puto,” was as much an original in Mr Price’s. 
breaft as if it had never before been uttered. 
I rotp Metical Aga’s fervant the bad news I had got 
from-Sennaar, and he agreed perfectly with the conténts, 
adding, that the journey was not practicable; he declared 
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