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bara. Never was furprife better counterfeited than by this 
man. He held up his hands in the utmoft aftonifhment, 
repeating, 200 fequins! over twenty times, and afked me if I _ 
thought money grew upon trees at sentiMlar, that it was 
with the utmoft difficulty he could fpare me 20 dollars, 
part of which he muft borrow from a friend. 
Tus was a ftroke that feemed to infure our deftru@tion 
no other refource being now left. We were already indebted 
to Hagi Belal twenty dollars for provifion ; we had feven 
mouths to feed daily ; and as we had neither meats , Money, 
nor credit, to continue at Sennaar was impoflible. We had ~ 
feen, a few nights before, that no houfe could protect us 
there ; and to leave Sennaar was, in our fituation, as impot- 
fible as to flay there. We had neither camels to carry our 
provifions and baggage, nor {kins for our water, nor, in- 
deed, any provifions to carry, nor money to fupply us with 
any of thefe, nor knewany perfon that could give us affift- 
ance nearer than Cairo, from which we were then diftant a- 
bout 17° of the meridian, or above 1000 miles in a ftraight line; 
great part of which was thro’the moftbarren, unhofpitablede- | 
ferts in the world, deftitute of all vegetation, andof every ani- 
mai that had the breath of life. Hagi Belal was inflexible; — 
he began now to be weary of us, to fee us but feldom, and 
there was great appearance of his foon Wii a 
entirely. ' 
My fervants began to murmur; fome of them had known 
of my gold chain from the beginning, and thefe, in the 
common‘danger, imparted what they knew tothe reft. In 
fhort, I refolved, though very unwillingly, not to facrifice 
my own life and that of my fervants, and the finifhing my 
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