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Chriftians like yourfelf % The Saracens having Nothing in 

 their power there, we could carry you fafely to Suakem, but 

 the Bilhary are men not to be trufted, and we could go no 

 farther than to land you among them, and they would put 

 you to death, and laugh at you all the time they were tor- 

 menting you f. Now, if you want to vifit Abyflinia, go 

 by Colfeir and Jidda, there you Chriflmns command the coun- 

 try." 



"I told him, I apprehended, the Kennaufs^ about the fecond 

 cataract, above Ibrim, were bad people. He faid the Ken^ 

 noufs were, lie believed, bad enough in their hearts, but 

 they were wretched Haves, and fervants, had no power in 

 itheir hands, would not wrong any body that was with his 

 people ^ if they uid, he would extirpate them in a day." 



'" I told him, I was fatisfied of the truth of what was faid, 

 and afked him the bell way to Cofleir. He faid, the bell 

 "way for me to go, was frcm Kenne, or Cuffj and that he 

 was carrying a quantity of wheat from Upper Egypt, while 

 Shekh Hamam was fending another Cargo from his country, 

 l>oth which would be delivered at Cofleir, and loaded there 

 for Jidda." 



" All that is right, Shekh, faid 1, but fuppofe your people 

 meet us in the defert, in going to Coffeir, or otherwife, hoW 

 fhould we fare in that cafe ? Should we fight ?" " I have 



T 2 told 



* They were Shepherds Indigent, not Arabs. 

 '*f S>gi Ludit in Hofpite /.%<?—>■ Was a character long ago given to the Moors. 



Horace Ode. 



