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Having made fome little acknowledgment to thofe who 

 ihad conducted me through the ruins in great fafety, I re- 

 turned to the Canja, or rather to my tent, which I placed in 

 the firft firm ground. I faw, at fome diftance, a well-dreiTed 

 man, with a white turban, and yellow fhawl covering it, 

 and a number of ill-looking people about him. As I 

 thought this was fome quarrel among the natives, I took 

 110 notice of it, but went to my tent, in order to rectify my 

 quadrant for obfervation. 



As foon as our Rais faw me enter my tent, he came with 

 cxpremons of very great indignation. " What fignifies it, 

 faid he, that you are a friend to the Bey, have letters to 

 every body, and are at the door of Furfhout, if yet here is- 

 a man that will take your boat away from you?" 



" Softly, foftly, I anfwered, HajfTan, he may be in the 

 right. If Ali Bey, Shekh Hamam, or any body want a boat 

 for public fervice, I mult yield mine. Let us hear." 



Shekh Hamam and Ali Bey! fays he; why it is a fool, ail 

 idiot, and an afs ; a fellow that goes begging about, and fays 

 he is a faint ; but he is a natural fool, full as much knave 

 as fool however; he is a thief, I know him to be a thief." 



If he is a faint, faid I, Hagi HafTan, as you are another, 

 known to be fo all the world over, I don't fee why I mould 

 interfere ; faint againll faint is a fair battle." — ** It is the 

 Cadi, replies he, and no one elfe." 



" Come away with me, faid I, HafTan, and let us fee this 

 cadi ; if it is the cadi, it is not the fool, it may be the knave." 



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