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face of the earth in fearch of wifdom, and are always to: 
do fo till Hagiuge Magiuge come, and then there will be 
an end of the world.” Imadea bow of affent to the Moul- 
lah, and all the reft turned up their eyes to heaven in 
wonder of fo much learning, repeating their ufual ejacu- 
lation, “ Ullah Akbar!” God is great. I now took my 
leave of them, and was going home, when the younger 
fherriffe called after me, and faid, “ I f{uppofe, now you are: 
all at peace, we fhall not fee the fign that you foretold us. 
was to appear in the heavens to-day.” “I fhould be 
thought a liar if it did not appear, faid 1; do you wifh to: 
fee it?’ —“I with to fee it, fays he, if it will do no harm.”—. 
“ Then, replied I, you fhall fee it, and it fhall do no harm. 
now. I hope it will bring health and happinefs, and a 
good crop to Teawa, and all the kingdom of Sennaar. Go: 
home, while I order my affairs. Something more than: 
two hours after this I will come to you, and it will them 
appear. They all went away, and, as 1 thought by their 
looks, they would have been better fatisfied that affair had’ 
been forgot, the Shekh faying peevifhly to the fherriffe,, 
“ Let him mind his affairs and his journey ; what is the: 
ufe of thefe things now?” 
I nap rectified my watch by obfervation. I knew I 
could not be far wrong, having feen in the ephemerides 
the hour the eclipfe was to begin. I pafled a corner of 
the Shekh’s houfe, and went in at the back-door. He was 
there with his ufual friends, the Moullah, the therriffe, the — 
Kaiya, and one or two more. The fherrifle afked me 
where the fign would appear; and the Moullah, if there 
would be any thunder and lightning? I told them there 
would be nothing difagreeable at all. I went to the door, 
and. 
