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aluc& through your kingdom, and the rights of hofpitality 
beftowed in fuch cafes on every common ftranger; and one 
_of the favours I beg is, your acceptance of a {mall prefent. 
I bring it not from home; I have been long abfent from 
thence, or it would have Been better.” 4d. “ I'll not re- 
fufe it, but it is quite unneceflary, I have faults like other 
men, but to hurt, or ranfom ftrangers, was never one of 
them. Mahomet Abou Kalec, my brother, is however a 
much better man to ftrangers than!I am; you will be lucky 
if you meet him here; if not, I will do aie you what F can 
when once the saucien of thefe Arabs 1s over. 
{cave himthe fherriffe’s letter, which he opened, looked at, 
and laid by without reading, faying only, “ Aye, Metical 
is a good man, he fometimes takes care of our people 
going to Mecca ; for my part, I never was there, and proba-~ 
bly never fhall.” I then prefented my letter from Ali Bey 
to him. He placed it upon his knee, and gave a flap upon 
it with his open hand. 4d “ What! do you not know, 
have you not heard,Mahomet Abou Dahab, his Hafnadar, has 
rebelled againft him, banifhed him out of Cairo, and now 
fits in his place? But don’t be difconcerted at that, I 
know you to be a man of honour and prudence ; if Maho- 
met, my brother, does notcome, as foon as I can get leifure 
I will difpatch you.” The fervant that had conducted me 
to Sennaar, and was then with us, went forward clofe to 
_him, and faid, in a kind of whifper, “Should he go often 
to the king ?”»——“ When he pleafes; he may go to fee the 
town, and take a walk, but never alone, and alfo to the pa- 
lace, that, when he returns to his own country, he may 
report he faw a king at Sennaar, that neither knows how 
to govern, nor will fuffer others to teach him ; ; who knows 
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