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ment, all of whom treated me well, and refpected my na- 
tion.” King. “ You are not fo gay as when you firit at+ 
rived here.” Ya. “I have had no very great reafon.” Our 
converfation was now taking a very laconic and ferious 
turn, but he did not feem to underftand the meaning of 
what I faid laft. x. “ Adelan has fent for you by my defire ; 
Wed Abroff and all the Jehaina Arabs have rebelled, and 
will pay notribute. They fay you have a quantity of power- 
ful fire-arms with you that will kill twenty or thirty men 
at afhot.” Ya. “ Say fifty or fixty, if it hitsthem.” XK. “He - 
is therefore to employ you with your guns to punifh thofe 
Arabs, and fpoil them of their camels, part of which he will 
give to you.” I prefently underftood what he meant, and 
only anf{wered, “ Iam a ftranger here, and defire to hurt 
no man. Myarms are for my own defence againftt robbery 
and violence.” At this inftant the Turk, Hagi Ifmael, cried 
from without the door, in broken Arabic, ‘‘ Why did not 
you tell thofe black Kafrs, you fent to rob and murder us 
the other night, to ftay a little longer, and you would have 
been better able to judge what our fire-arms can do, with- 
out fending for us either to Abroff or Adelan. By the head 
-of the prophet? let them come in the day-time, and I will 
fight ten of the beft you have in Sennaar.” 
K. “ Tuz man is mad, but he brings me to {peak of what 
“-=was in my head when I defired to fee you. Adelan has 
been informed that Mahomet, my fervant, who brought 
you from Teawa, has been guilty of a drunken frolic at 
the door of his houfe, and has fent foldiers to take him to- 
day, with two or three others of his companions.” Ya. “I 
know nothing about Mahomet, nor do I drink with him, 
No, IV. 3R Pak or 
