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paid them ; but no particular meflage, except than that 
they had been exceedingly well after their medicines, and’ 
hoped I would not abandon them, but fee them again. A: 
Greek fervant of mine, who knew perfectly their cuftoms,. 
had anfwered, that I certainly would wait upon them when. 
the Shekh fhould defire me fo. to do. © 
THE weather was extremely hot, and people, avoiding fun= 
fhine of the day, generally fat up the whole of the night,- 
enjoying the only hours when it was poffible to breathe free- 
ly. It was about eleven:o’clock at night, when the old Kaiya, 
‘whom I never faw but upon thefe occafions, came to me 
for coffee, of. which he drank at leaft twenty difhes every 
vifit. He appeared at firft very moderate, and, as he pre- 
tended, a:friend. But immediately afterwards, being feat-. 
ed, and affuming a new kind of air and tone of voice, he: 
reproved me roundly for my behaviour to the Shekh that 
day. He extolled him highly for his generofity, courage,, 
and his great intereft at Sennaar from his’ father’s merits,. 
and from his having married Shekh Adelan’s daughter. 
He faid, it was the greateft prefumption, in a fet of infidels 
dike us, to behave in the manner we had done to Fidele that’ 
day. “Hagi Soliman, anfwered I, you are an old man; ‘if 
years have not given you wifdom, your journey to Mecca,. 
and converfation with perfons of all nations there, fhould at 
jeaft have taught you an appearance of it, which; at this time,, ° 
you have not. I am here,. immediately under the protec- 
tion of the fherriffe of Mecca, the chief of your religion, and 
Metical Aga his minifter. 1 have letters from:the king of 
Abyflinia to your king of Sennaar, requefting only, under’ 
the faith of nations, to pafs through your country in my 
way to Cairo, to rejoin Ali Bey, whofe phyfician Iam, and. 
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