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and-I will fee him in the morning,” Ah! Mahomet, cries 
Soliman, is that you?! thought you had hada narrow enough 
efcape in the palace the other day, but ftay a little, a fer- 
vant is gone over the back wall to call the Gindi, and we 
are here numerous enough to defend this houfe till morning 
-againft all the fervants the king has, fo do not attempt to 
break the door, and Yagoube will go to the king with the 
Gindi. 4 
Ar this time onemof my fervants fired a piftol in the air 
out of an upper window, upon which they all ran off. They 
feemed to be about ten or twelve in number, and left three 
hand{pikes behind them.» The noife of the piftol brought 
the guard, or patrole, in about half an hour, who carried 
intelligence to the Sid el Coom, our friend, by whom I was 
informed in the morning, that he had found them all out, 
and put them in irons; that Mahomet, the king’s fervant, 
who met us at Teawa, was one of them; and that there 
was no poflibility now of concealing this from Adelan, who 
would order him to be impaled. 
THincGs were now come to fucha crifis that I was de- 
termined to leave my inftruments and papers with Kittou, 
Adelan’s brother, or with the Sid el Coom, while I went to 
Shaddly to fee Adelan. But firft I thought it neceflary to 
apply to Hagi Belal to try what funds we could raife to 
provide the neceffaries for our journey. I fhewed him the 
letter of brahim, the Englifh broker of Jidda, of which 
betore he had received a copy and repeated advices, and 
. told him I fhould want 200 fequins at leaft, for my camels 
and provifions, as well as for fome prefents that I fhould 
have occafion for, to make my way to the great men in At. 
ne bara, 
