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388 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER: 
gree of nobility much refpected among the: Arabs, diftine 
guithed by wearing a. green turban; The Daveina, whem 
they burnt all the country berween Teawa and. Beyla, faved 
this man’s houfe, effects,and crop, in veneration of his fancti+ 
ty. Thefe two were fitting on each: fide of Shekh Fidele, 
and before him ftood two black flaves holding each a mons 
ftrous long broad-{word. I approached thefe powers, ec- 
clefiaitical and civil, with great compofure, as if nothing 
had happened; but Ifmael, the Turk, had almoft: fpoiled 
my gravity, for, feeing the fwords in the men’s hands be- 
fore Fidele, he faid, in his barbarous language, loud enough 
to be heard, “ O, ho, they have got their. {cabbards upon. 
their {words to-day.” 
Fiprre feemed to have avery ferene countenance, till’ 
we approached nearer, when, feeing the piftols in our gira 
dles, he appeared rather difcompofed, and probably he 
thought the blunderbufs.was not far off ; 1 made him, how-. 
ever, a bow, and fhook.him by the hand; Llikewife made an- 
other. bow to their two-holineffes. As-people of that fanc- 
tity feldom chufe to-have, even their cloaths, touched by 
unbelievers in public, ] made no further advance. towards: 
them. The fherriffe no fooner faw Ifmael’s turban, than. 
he got up, took him in his arms, and, as he was an older . 
man than himfelf, though all in rags, kifled his forehead. 
with great refpect.. This was returned by Hagi If{mael;. 
firft kiffing his forehead and then his hand; after which. 
the Moullah did the fame, as I thought with rather lefs. 
ceremony. Ifmael.gave a very flight falutation of. Salama. 
to. the Shekh, and we all fat down,. _ 
2. “ BROTHER;. 
