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Tue cadi then afked me, “If I knew when Hagiuge Mas. 
giuge was to come?” Remembering my old learned friend’ 
at Teawa, I fearce could forbear laughing. “I have no 
with to know any thing about him, faid 1;.1 hope thofe 
days are far off, and wall not happen in my time.” “ What. 
do your books fay concerning him? (fays he, ailecting ‘a 
great look of wifdom). Do they agree with ours?” “I don’t 
know that, faid I, till i hear what is written in your books.” 
“Hagiuge Magiuge, fays he, are little people, not fo big as 
bees, or like the zimb, or fly of Sennaar, that come ih great 
{warms out of the earth, aye, in multitudes that cannot be- 
counted ; two of their chiefs-are to ride upon an afs, and eve=. 
ry bair of that afs is to be a pipe, and every pipe is to play a- 
different kind of mufic, and all that hear-and- follow. them 
are carried to hell.” “I know them not, faid-l, and; in the 
name of the Lord, J fear them not, were they twice as little 
as you fay they are, and twice as numérous.. I truft in God: 
I fhall never be fo fond of mufic as to go‘to hell after an afs. 
for all the tunes that: he. or they can- play.” The king — 
laughed violently. I rofe to go away, for I was heartily ti- 
red of the converfation. I ;whifpered the Abyflinian fervant 
in Amharic, to afk when I fhould bring a trifle I had te. 
offer the king. He faid, Not that night, as fhould be tired, . 
but defired that I fhould now go home, and he would fend ’ 
me notice when to come, I accordingly went away, and” : 
found a number of people in the ftreet, all having fome taunt - 
or affronting matter to fay. I pafled through the great~ 
{quare before the palace, and could not help fhuddering,.. 
upon reflection, at what had happened in that {pot to the: 
unfortunate M. du Roule and his companions, though uns. 
der a protection which fhould have fecured them from all! 
dagger, every part of which I was then unprovided with. . 
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