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three years; he knows what is owing to his own character 
better than to fuffer a flave like you to lay his filthy 
hands on a ftranger like me.”—‘“ No! No! Mallem, fays the 
man that {poke Italian, we will do youno harm. I{mael, 
that you brought from Habeth, has been with the Bey, and 
he wants to fee you;, and that is all."—Then flay without,. 
faid I, till I am ek and.I will come to you prefently.” 
Out they went: I heard them crying to the Caloyeros for 
drink, but they never in. their lives were in a place where 
they could addrefs themfelves worfe for either meat or li- 
quors; on the other hand, I did not keep them long in drefi- 
ing. I had no fhirt on, nor had I been mafter of one for 
fourteen months paft, I had a waiftcoat of coarfe, brown,,. 
woollen blanket, trowfers of the fame, and an upper blan- 
ket of the fame wrapt about me, and in thefe I was: lying.. 
t had cut off my long beard at Furfhout, but ftill wore pro- 
digious muftachoes. | had.a thin, white, muflin cloth round. 
a red Turkifh cap, which ferved me fora night-cap, a girdle 
ef coarfe woollen cloth that wrapt round my waift eight 
er ten times, and fwaddled me up from the middle to the’ 
pit of my ftomach, but without either fhoes or ftockings.. 
In the left of my girdle I had two Englifh piftols mounted: 
with filver, and on the right hand a common crooked Abyf- 
finian knife, with a handle of a rhinoceros horn. Thus: 
equipt, ! was ufhered by the banditti, in a dark. and very- 
windy night, to the door.of the convent. 
Tue Sarach, or commander of the party, rode upon a mule; 
and, as a mark of extreme confideration, he had brought an 
_afs for me, with fods, or a carfaddle upon his back, the only 
animal that, to the fhame. of our Chriftian rulers, any of our 
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