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letters, which I have feen in their hands before reading, 
and alfo read them afterwards? Was I not fpeaking to them 
both this morning about the letters? and are not they juft 
now waiting without? If you have a mind to call them in, 
and queftion them, do it now before me. What do you 
think Yafine will fay when he hears of the fine character 
you give him ?” “Soliman, replies the Shekh, in a very foft 
tone of voice, ! may have forgotten, in the many letters and 
affairs that pafs through my hands in a day; but Yafine is. 
my brother, and { will do every thing for him:and you 
that you could wifh: flay only this week, and if my camels 
_ do not arrive, I will fend and take them from the Arabs, 
wherever they can be found. They are forthe king’s bufi- 
nefs, and not mine.” He faid this with fuch an air of can- 
dour and fincerity, that it was impoffible to doubt him. 
‘On the 26th, I went in the forenoon to fee the Shekh; I 
fat a few minutes with him, then rofe to go away. He 
then inquired if I had any thing particular to afk? Ian- 
- fwered, I had nothing but to pay my compliments to him. 
He made me a very evil bow, and I took my leave. Next 
day, the 2 -th, Tftaidin the Biles all day, it being the Shekh’s 
feitival. In the evening, the old man, who was the Kaiya, 
came to my houfe with adaupslimiehies from the Shekh.. He 
_told me Fidele was often ill with complaints in the flomach, 
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and hinted that it was from exceffive drinking. He wifhed 
that | would give him fome medicine to vomit him, and 
reftore his appetite, which he had perfectly loft. The old 
man added, that this was the way to make the Shekh do 
what I wifhed, fooner than all the prefents in the world. 
I told him, that he might affure Fidele, that I_ both could, 
and would do him that fervice, and for that purpofe would 
wait upon him at 6 o’clock next evening. 
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