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‘take my word, as Iam a muffulman, I did not intend it, [ 
did not know you was ill.” 
My feet at that time gave me fuch violent pain that I 
~was like to faint, and could not anfwer, but as there were 
two flowered velvet cufhions upon one of the fteps above 
the floor, I was obliged to kneel down upon one of them,.as I 
did nct know how fitting might be taken. The Bey im- 
mediately faw this, and cried out, “ What now? what is the 
matter?” I faw he thought I had fome complaint to make, 
or fomething to afk. I fhewed him my feet in a terrible 
fituation, the effects, I told him, of my pafling through the 
defert. He defired me immediately to fit down on the 
cufhion. “It is.the coldnefs of the night, and hanging 
_ upon the afs, faid I, occafions this; the pain will be over 
-prefently.” ‘You are an unfortunate man, fays the Bey, 
whatever I mean to do for.your goad, turns to your mif- 
“fortune.” “ I hope nat, Sir, faid 1; the pain is now over, and 
I.am.able-to hear what may be your commands.” “I have 
many queftions to afk.you, fays the Bey. You have been 
very kind to poor.old Ifmael, whois a fherriffe, and to 
my Chriftian fervant likewife; and I wanted to fee 
what I could do for you; but this is not. the time, go home 
and fleep, and I will fend for you. Eat and drink, .and 
fear nothing. My father-in-law is gone, but, by the grace 
-of God, | am here in his place; that is enough.” I bowed, 
and took my leave. | 
Tue Bey had fpoken feveral times to his.fervant in Turk- 
ifh; but thefe interruptions are too common at fuch au- 
-diences to be taken notice of. I went out to the anticham- 
ber attended by. five or fix people, and then into another 
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