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with will not be eafily pafled over either in Abyffinia or.at 
Sennaar. Iam neither fervant nor merchant; and it has . 7 
been your ill-luck to try your wicked experiments upon a , 
man like me, who never in his life carried: much money a- 
bout him, becaufe he never valued it.” Mou. You mutt 
forget all, and I will be your friend with the Shekh, fince 
you come from the fherriffe of Mecca.” “ And I, too, fays 
the other, for the kindnefs you have fhewed our brother 
\f{mael there, in-carrying him home from among the Kafrs - 
of Habefh; and if Fidele cannot procure camels, we will 
try and help him; fo go in peace, and get ready.” 
‘We had fcarce got rid of this real danger, when the ap- 
prehenfion of an imaginary one ftruck us violently. The , 
water at Teawa is ftagnant in pools, and exceedingly bad. 
Either that, or the bouza, a kind of new beer which they 
fent us with our meat, had given allof us, at the fame time, a 
a violent diarrhoea, and I was tormented with a perpetual 
thirft ever fince we had been overtaken by the fimoom3' 
and the bouza being acid, was not only .more agreeable, ° A 
but, | thought, relieved me more than bad water; inthis, | 
therefore, | certainly had exceeded. When we found we - a 
were all taken il] at the fame time, it came into our wife | 
heads that Shekh Fidele had given us poifon in our dinner, 
and we were very much perplexed what we fhould do the 
next day. None of us, therefore, tafted the meat fent us; 
when at night, our friend, the black flave came, and to her 
we frankly told our doubts. The poor creature fell into 
fuch violent fits of laughing, which followed fo clofe the 
ene upon the other, and lafted fo long, that I feared fhe 
would have expired upon the fpot. “ It is the water, fays 
fhe; it does fo to all ftrangers ;” and then fhe fell into an- 
other 
