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The faint, who had been fmging all the time we were 

 difputing, began now to fhew fome apprehenfions for his 

 own fafety : He afked Hagi HafTan, if this was the way to 

 Girge ? and had for anfwer, " Yes, it is the fool's way to 

 " Girge." 



We carried him about a mile, or more, up the river ; then 

 a convenient landing-place offering, I afked him whether 

 he got my money, or not, laft night ? He faid, he had for 

 yefterday, but he had got none for to-day. — " Now, the next 

 thing I have to afk you, faid I, is, Will you go afhore of your 

 own accord, or will you be thrown into the Nile ? He an- 

 fwered with great confidence, Do you know, that, at my 

 word, I can fix your boat to the bottom of the Nile, and 

 make it grow a tree there for ever .?" " Aye, fays Hagi Haf- 

 fan, and make oranges and lemons grow on it likewife, 

 can't you ? You are a cheat." " Come, Sirs, faid I, lofe no time, 

 put him out." I thought he had been blind and weak ; 

 and the boat was not within three feet of the fhore, when 

 placing one foot upon the gunnel, he leaped clean upon land. 



We flacked our veffel down the ftream a few yards, fill- 

 ing our fails, and ftretching away. Upon feeing this, our 

 faint fell into a defperate paffion, curling, blafpheming, and 

 ftamping with his feet, at every word crying " Shar Ullah !" 

 I. e. may God fend, and do jullice. Our people began to 

 taunt and gibe him, afking him if he would have a pipe of 

 tobacco to warm him, as the morning was very cold ; but I 

 bade them be content. It was curious to fee him, as far as 

 we could difcern, fometimes fitting down, fometimes jump- 

 ing and flapping about, and waving his flag, then running 



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