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fes, which he feemed to be contemplating with pleafure; a: 
number of black people, his own fervants and friends, were: 
ftanding around him. He had on a long drab-coloured. 
camlet gown, lined with yellow fattin, and a camlet cap 
like a headépiece, with two fhort points that covered his 
ears. This, it feems, was his drefs when he rofe early’ in: 
the morning to vifit his horfes, which he never neglected.. 
The Shekh was a man above fix feet high, and rather cor- 
pulent, had a heavy walk, feemingly more from affectation 
of grandeur than want of agility. He was about fixty, of 
the colour and features of an Arab and not of.a-.Negro, 
- but had rather more beard. than falls.to the lot of. people 
in this country; large piercing eyes, and a determined, tho’,. 
at the fame time, a very. pleafing countenance... Upon my 
coming near him he. got up, “ You that area horfeman, 
(fays- te without any falutation) what would your-king of 
Habefh’-give for thefe liorfes ?”——-What king, anfwered.], in 
the fame tone, would not give any price for fuch horfes 
uf he knew their value ??—*“Well,. replies he, in a lower: 
voice, to the people about him, if we are forced to. go to 
Habeth (as Baady was) we will carry our horfes along with 
us.” Iunderftood: by. this he alluded. to the iffue. of his: 
approaching quarrel with the. king,, 
We then went into a large faloon, hung round ‘with: 
mirrors and {carlet damafk; in one of the longeft fides, were 
two large fofa’s covered ich crimfon and yellow -damatk, . 
and large cufhions of cloth of gold, like’to the-king’s. He 
now pulled off his .camlet: gown and-°cap, and remained 
m a crimfon fattin coat reaching down below his knees, 
which lapped over at the breaft, and was girt round -his 
waift with a fcarf or fafh, in which he had fluck.a fhore 
dagger in an ivory fheath, mounted. with gold ; and one of: 
the, 
