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againft you at the day of judgment?” Ya. “I do not ‘know, 
but | fhall be very much furprifed if it does.” “Iaffure you 
he will, fays Hagi Soliman.” Ya. “ Be it fo, it is & matter of 
indifference to me.” Sol. “ Do you know what God will fay 
to you about that fifh ? Shall I tell you? Ya. “I have not the 
leaft idea, and you will oblige me.” Sol, “* God will fay to 
you, Did you make that fifh? What will you anfwer? 
Ya. “I will anfwer, I did.” Sol. “ He will fay to you again, 
Make a foul to it.” VY. “I will anfwer, I cannot.” So/. “ He 
willfay, Why did you make that fifh’s body, when you was 
not capable to give it a foul? What can you anfwer then?” 
Ya. “I made that body, becaufe thou gaveft me talents and 
capacity to do it. I do not make the foul, becaufe thou haft 
denied me power and ability, and referved that to thyfelf on- 
ly.” Sol. “ Do you think he will be contented with that an- 
fwer?” Ya. “Ido moft certainly think fo. It is truth, and 
I do not think a more direct one can be given.” « Sol. “ Aha! 
the Moullah would tell you that will not do; painting things 
that have life is idolatry, and the punifhment is hell-fire.” 
Ya. “ Patience, then, my cafe is defperate, for it is not a fin 
J intend to repent of.” Thus ended this curious difcuffion, 
and we went away in perfect good humour one with. the 
other. A number of the better fort drank coffee with me 
in the evening. The Aga fent me two fheep, and, obferving 
my feet much inflamed and wounded, made me likewife a 
prefent of a pair of flippers of foft Turkey leather to defend 
them from the inclemency of the weather. 
Ir was the 11th of December when we left Syene; ive 
cannot fay failed, for our maft being down, we went with 
the current and the oats, when the wind was againft 
us. In our voyage down the Nile we had but very 
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