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I was well fatisfied that, armed as we were, on foot, we were 

 more than fumcient to heat the Atouni, after thev Had de- 

 feated the clownifh caravan of Egypt, from whole courage 

 we certainly had nothing to expect. 



I cannot conceal the fecret pleafure I had in finding the 

 character of my country fo firmly eftablifhed among na- 

 tions fo diftant, enemies to our religion, and llrangers to 

 our government. Turks from Mount Taurus, and Arabs 

 from the deiert of Libya, thought themfelves unfafe among 

 their own countrymen, but trufled their lives and their lit- 

 tle fortunes implicitly to the direction and word of an Eng- 

 lishman whom they had never before feen. 



These Turks feemed to be above the middling rank of 

 people ; each of them had his little cloak bag very neatly 

 packed up ; and they gave me to underfland that there 

 was money in it. Thefe they placed in my fervants tent, 

 aid chained them all together, round the middle pillar of 

 it ; tor it was eafy to fee the Axabs of the caravan had 

 theft packages in view, from the firft moment of the Turk's 

 arrival. 



We flaid all the iSth at I egeta, waiting for the junction 

 of the caravans, and departed the 19th at fix o'clock in the 

 morning. Our journey, all that day, was through a plain, 

 never lefs than a mile broad, and never broader than three; 

 the hills, on our right and left, were higher than the for- 

 mer, and of a brownifh calcined colour, like the Hones on 

 the fides of Mount Vefuvius, but without any herb or tree 

 upon them. 



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