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replied to one another alternately, in notes full of pleafant 
melody, rite 
Et cantare pares &§ refpondere parati— 
VIRGIL. 
_ alll fell faft afleep, involuntarily, and with regret, for, tho’ 
bruifed, we were not fatigued, but rather difcouraged, ha- 
ving gone no further than two miles that day. 
Tue landlord of the hut where I was afleep having pre- 
pared for our fafety and that of our baggage, thought him- 
felf bound in duty to go and give immediate information 
to the prime minifter of the unexpected guefts that then oc- 
cupied his houfe. He found Adelan at fupper, but was im- 
mediately admitted, and a variety of queftions afked him, 
which he anfwered fully. He defcribed our colour, our | 
number, the unufual fize and number of our fire-arms, the 
_poornefs of our attire,’and, above all, our great chearful- 
nefs, quietnefs, and affability, our being contented with eat- 
ing any thing, and in particular mentioned the hogs fiefh. 
One man then prefent, teftifying abhorrence to this, Adelan 
faid of me to our landlord, “ Why, he is a foldier and a Kafr 
like yourfelf. A foldier and a Kafr, when travelling in a 
ftrange country, fhould eat every thing, and fo does every 
other man that is wife; has he not a fervant of mine with. 
him?’ He anfwered, “ Yes, and a fervant of the king too; 
but he had left them, and was gone forward to Sennaar.” 
“ Go you with them, fays he, and ftay with them at Bat 
boch till I have time to fend for them to town.” He had 
returned from Aira long before we arofe, and told us the 
converfation, which was great comfort to us all, for we 
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