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in whofe hands at leaft three thoufand fubjects of Sennaar, 
‘and their effects, are at this moment. I fay to you now, as 
I did to your mafter in the morning, that he cannot either 
rob or murder me at Teawa without all your nation being 
refponfible for it, wherever they fhall go. But Iam not a 
fheep, or a lamb, to be fpoiled of my goods, or robbed of 
my life, without defending myfelf to the utmoft; and I tell 
you, for your proper inftruction, that there are probably 
now at Sennaar, people from the king of Abyffinia, com- 
plaining of my being detained here, and demanding ju- 
Mice. 
Hz feemed to-:pay no attention to this threat. He did 
not think it poffible that I could have had any communica- 
tion with Ras el Feel fince I came to Teawa, but declared, 
that, as my particular friend, he had calmed the Shekh’s 
‘wrath, and obliged him to promife, that, for 2000 piaftres, 
he would difpatch me in two days to Sennaar. Indeed, 
Hagi Soliman, faid I, I have not 20 piaftres in the world to 
give either him or you, nor would I give them if I had 
them. The Shekh may take all that I have by force, and is 
welcome to try the experiment. You, as his friend and fol- 
dier, may command the party, if you pleafe. but I am re- 
folved, were he willing, never to leave Teawa till I depart 
under the conduct of another man than one of your or of 
Shekh Fidele’s chufing. Upon my faying this, he arofe, 
fhook the bofom of his cloak, and faid, he was forry for it; 
~but he wafhed his hands of all the confequences. ~ 
IMMEDIATELY after this we fhut our doors: and our fire- 
"o> cleaned, loaded, and primed, we refolved to a- 
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