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v/hich I intended to vint, without any defign of continuing 

 ' vor ftudying there : But the reader will afterwards fee of 

 what very material fervice this acquaintance was to me, fo 

 very effential, indeed, that it contributed more to the fuccefs 

 of my views in Abyflinia than any other help that I obtain- 

 ed throughout the whole of it. This man's name was Pa- 

 dre Chriftophoro, or Father Chriftopher. At my leaving Al- 

 giers, finding himfelf lefs conveniently fituated, he went to 

 Egypt, to Cairo, where he was promoted to be fecond in 

 Tank under Mark, patriarch of Alexandria, where I after- 

 wards found him. 



Business of a private nature had at this time obliged me 

 to prefent myfelf at Mahon, a gentleman having promifed 

 to meet me there,; I therefore failed from Algiers, having 

 taken leave of the Dey, who furnifhed me with every letter 

 that I afked, with flrong and peremptory orders to all the 

 officers of his own dominions, preinng recommendatory 

 ones to the Bey of Tunis and Tripoli, ftates indepen- 

 dent, indeed, of the Dey of Algiers, but over which the 

 .circumftanc.es of the times had given him a coniiderable in- 

 fluence. 



The violent difputes about the pafTports had rather raif- 

 ed than lowered me in his efteem. The letters were given 

 •with the belt grace poffible, and the orders contained in 

 them were executed moft exacliy in all points during my 

 whole nay in Barbary. Being difappointed in the meeting 

 1 looked for at Mahon, 1 remained three days in Quarantine 

 Ifland, though General Townfend, then deputy- governor, by 

 every civility and attention in his power, ftrove to induce 



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