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" my religion teaches me to do good to all men, even to. 

 " enemies, without reward, or without confidering whether 

 " I ever mould fee them.again.'* 



"Now, after the drugs I fent you by Ibrahim, tell me, 

 u and tell me truly, upon the faith of an Arab, would your 

 " people, if they met me in the defert, do me any wrong, 

 "more than now, as I have eat and drank with. you to-day ?" 



The old man Nimmerj on' this rofe from his carpet, and 

 fat upright, a, more ghaftly and more horrid figure I ne- 

 ver faw. " No, faid he, Shekh, curfed be thofe men of my 

 people, or others, that ever mall lift up their hand : againfl 

 you, either in the Defert or the Tell, i. <?..the part, of Egypt which? 

 is cultivated. As long as you are in this country, or between; 

 this and Coueir, my fon mall ferve you with heart and hand;, 

 one night of pain that your medicines freed.me from, would; 

 not be repaid, if I was to follow you on foot to Meflir, that 

 is Cairo*!' 



I then thought it a proper time- to enter into conver-i- 

 fation about penetrating into AbyfTmia that way, and they 

 difcufTed it among themfelves in a very friendly, and ate 

 the fame time in a- very fagacious and fenfible manner. 



" We could carry you to El Haimer,. (which I underftood' 

 to be a well in the defert, and which I afterwards wa& 

 much better acquainted with to my forrow.) We could) 

 condu<5l you fo far, fays old Nimmer, under God, without 

 fear of harm^'alL that country was Chriftian once, and w&- 



Chriftian& 



