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der in cold blood; and therefore my eleebineityakten 1s ,to 
{pare the life even of this man, and will ani his pane 
put to death by every means in my dae iidb 
Ir was teinty to fee, chat fear of their own ives only, and 
not cruelty, was the reafon they fought that of the Arab. 
They anfwered me, two or three of them at once, “ That 
it was all very well; what fhould they do? fhould they 
give themfelves up to the Bifhareen, and be murdered like 
Mahomet Towafh? was there any other way of efcaping?” 
“ T will tell you, then, fince you afk me what you fhould do: 
You fhall follow theduty of felf-defence and felf-preferva- 
tion, as far as you can do it without a-crime. You fhall 
Jeave the women and the child where they are, and with 
them the camels, to give them and their child milk; you 
fhall chain the shenibsarlelts right hand to the left of fome of 
yours, and you thall each of you take him by turns till we 
fhall carry him into Egypt. ‘Perhaps he knows the defert 
and the wells better than Idris; and if he fhould ‘not, ftill we 
have two Hybeers inftead of one ;. and who can. foretell 
what may happen to Idris more than to any other of us? 
But as he knows the ftations -of his people, and their cour- 
fes at particular feafons, that day we meet one Bifhareen, 
the man that is chained -with him, and conduéts him, fhall 
inftantly ftab him tothe heart, fo that he fhall not fee, much 
lefs triumph ‘in, the fuccefs of his treachery. On the con- 
trary, if he is faithful, and informs Idris where the danger 
is, and where we are to avoid it, keeping us rather by tcanty 
wells than abundant ones, on the day I arrive fafely in F gypt 
1 will cloath Him anew, as-alfo his women, give him a good 
camel for himfelf, and a load of.dora for them all, As for 
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