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perately tired, and peevilh at being dragged out, on fo fool- 

 ifh an errand. 



Next morning, his fecretary Rifk came to me to the con- 

 vent. The Bey was not yet well ; and the idea ilill remain- 

 ed that he had been poifoned. Rifk told me the Bey had 

 great confidence in me. I afked him how the water had 

 operated ? He faid he had not yet taken any of it, that he 

 did not know how to make it, therefore he was come at 

 the defire of the Bey, to fee how it was made. 



I immediately mewed him this, by infufmg fome greens 

 tea in fome warm water. But this was not all, he modefl-- 

 iy infinuated that I was to drink it, and fo vomit myfelf, in^ 

 order tofhew him how to do with the Bey. 



I excused myfelf from being patient and phyfician ai£ 

 the fame time, and told him, I would vomit Bim, which 

 would anfwer the fame purpofe of inilruction; neither was - 

 this propofal accepted, 



The old Greek prieft, Father Chriilopher* coming at the 

 fame time, we both agreed to vomit the Father, who would 

 not confent, but produced a Caloyeros, or young monk, and ? 

 we forced him to take the water whether he would or not. 



As my favour with the Bey was now.eftabliffied by my ■ 

 midnight interviews, I thought of leaving my folitary 

 manfion at the convent. I defired Mr Rifk: to procure me 

 peremptory letters of recommendation to Shekh Haman, . 

 to the governor of Syene, Ibrim, and Berr, in Upper Egypt, 

 I procured alfo the fame from the janinaries, to thefe three 



lail 



