THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 109 



By this time the faint had got into the boat, and fat for- 

 ward ; he was an ill-favoured, low, lick-like man, and feem- 

 ed to be almoft blind. 



You mould not make rafh promifes, laid f to the cadi, 

 for this one you made you never can perform ; I am not go- 

 ing to Girge. All Bey, ivhofejlave you are^ gave me this boat, 

 but told me, I was not to fhip either faints or cadies. There 

 is my boat, go a-board if you dare ; and you, Hagi Haflan, 

 let me fee you lift an oar, or loofe a fail, either for the cadi 

 or the faint,, if I am not with them. 



I went to my tent, and the Rais followed me. " Hagi 

 " Haflan, faid I, there is a proverb in my country, It is bet- 

 " ter to flatter fools than to fight them : Cannot you go to- 

 " the fool, and give him half-a-crown ? will he take it, do 

 ** you think, and abandon his journey to Girge? after- 

 * wards leave me to fettle with the cadi for his voyage thi- 

 " ther." 



" He will take it with all his heart, he will kifs your hand 

 tt for half-a-crown, fays Haflan.'' 



" Let him have half-a-crown from rne, faid I, and deflre 

 ** him to go about his bufmefs, and intimate that I give him 

 " it in charity, at fame time expecl: compliance with the 

 " condition." 



In the interim, a Chriflian Copht came into the tentr 



" Sir, faid he, you don't k aow what you are doing ; the cadi 



is a great man, give him h ovefent, and have done with 



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