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I thanked him for his kindncfs. We had all along pre.- 

 fcrved Uriel: friendfhip. Never fear the banks, faid I ; for 

 I know if there is one in the way, you have nothing to do 

 hut to bid him begone, and he will hurry to one fide direct- 

 ly. " I have had paflengers, fays he, who would believe 

 " that, and more than that, when I told them ; but there is 

 * c no occaiion I fee to walle much time with you in fpeak? 

 " ing of miracles." 



" You are miftaken, Rais, I replied, very much miftaken ; 

 " I love to hear modern miracles vaftjy, there is always fome 

 " amufement in them."—" Aboard your Christian mips, fays 

 " he, you always have a prayer at twelve o'clock, and drink 

 " a glafs of brandy ; fmce you won't be a Turk like me, I 

 " wifli at lead you would be a Chriftian." — Very fairly put, 

 faid I, Haflan, let your veffel keep her wind if there is no 

 danger, and I mall take care to lay in a Hock for the whole 

 voyage at the firft town in which w r e can purchafe it. 



We pafled by a number of villages on the weftern 

 ihore, the eaftern feeming to be perfectly unpeopled : Firft, 

 Fefhne, a confiderable place ; then *Minict, or the ancient 

 rhylsc, a large town which had been fortified towards the 

 water, at leail there were fome guns there. A rebel Bey 

 had taken poifellion of it, and it was ufual to flop here, the 

 river being both narrow and rapid ; but the Rais was in great 

 fpirits, and refolved to hold his wind, as I had defired him, 

 and nobody made us any fignal from fhore. 



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Signifies the Narrow Pafiage, and is meant what Phyla is in Latin. 



