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all, drawing his fword, that we fhould inftantly provide’ 
him with a new fcabbard, his own being but a piece of 
common leather, which he threw with a kind of indigna- 
tion down upon the floor. Till that timeI had been wri- 
ting thefe very memoirs, at leaft the journal of the day. I 
was not any way afraid of one drunkard, but laid down 
my pen, wondering where this infolence was to end. Before 
I had time to fpeak a word, I heard my old Turk, the fher- 
riffe, Hagi Ifmael, fay, “ You are of the Jehaina, are you?’ 
then I am of the Daveina ;” and with that he caught the’ 
ftranger by the throat, taking his {word from him, which 
he threw out of the houfe, after cafling the owner violently 
tpon the floor. The fellow crept out upon all-four, and, as. 
foon as he had picked up his fword, attempted again. ta en- 
ter the houfe, which Soliman perceiving, {natched his own: 
fhort, crooked fword, from a pin where it hung, and ran: 
readily to meet him, and would very fpeedily have made: 
an end: of him, had I not cried out, “ For God’s fake, Soli- 
maan, don’t hurt him; remember where you are.” Indeed,,. 
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there was little reafon for the caution ;sfor when the Arab 
obferved a. drawn {word in the Turk’s hand, he prefent- 
ly ran away towards the town, crying, Ullah! Ullah! 
Wllah! which was, God! God! God! am exclamation of ter- _ 
ror, and we faw no more of him. whilft, inflead of a new 
feabbard, he left his old one in the houfe.. Seeing at once: 
the cowardice and malice of our enemies, we were now’. 
apprehenfive of fire, things were come to fuch an. extre- ~ 
~mity; and as our houfe was compofed of nothing: but dry 
canes, it feemed the only obvious way of deftroying us.. 
On the oth, in the morning I fent Soliman with the 
fcabbard to Fidele, and a grievous complaint againi the 
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