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reen Hybeers for me, or rather to join our companies to- 
gether, for the Bifhareen were not to be trufted. Contrary 
to the defire of the chief of the Arabs, he took away the 
three Hybeers, to difappoint me; he found them three mur- 
derers, and left methe only honeft man whom he did not 
know. God punifhedthe prefumption and pride of which 
he was full, juft as this Moullah, who laft came in#and fits 
before you, appears to be.” 
Tue Aga then afked me, if I faw him afterwards? “ You 
know, I fuppofe, the ftory. One of the three Hybeers went 
to Abou Bertran,a principal Shekh of the Bifhareen, and 
prepared a party to meet them on the road at the next fta- 
tion, while the other two Hybeers, their guides, took care to 
deceive him by lies, and carried him directly upon the road 
where the plot was laid. About twenty men on camels, 
armed with lances, and as many young men on foot, with 
{words, came to meet him, and thofe upon camels made 
their beafts kneel down at fome diftance from him, as out 
of refpect coming to kifs his hands, as of a holy perfon be- 
longing to the Caaba, their fanctuary at Mecca. 
“THE vain, imprudent man difmounted from his 
camel to give them a more eafy opportunity of paying him 
their refpeéts, and when one of them held him by the hand 
in token of friendfhip, another cut him acrofs the hams 
with a broad-fword, and a third run him through thé back 
witha lance. He endeavoured to put his hands to his pif- 
tols, but it was too late. They afterwards perfuaded his fer- 
vants, who had fire-arms in their hands, and, like fools, did 
not ufe them, to capitulate; and, after they had difarmed 
them, they carried them afide and murdered them alfo, then 
4H2 took 
