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fays he, that, when you Engliili people know £o well what 

 good government is, you did not order his head to be 

 itruck off, when you had him in your hands, before the 

 door of the tent?" — " Sir," faid I, " I know well what good 

 government is ; but being a ftranger, and a Chriflian, I 

 have no fort of title to exercife the power of life and death 

 in this country ; only in this one cafe, when a man at- 

 tempts my life, then I think I am warranted to defend 

 myfelf, whatever may be the confequence to him. My 

 men took him in the fact, and they had my orders, in fuch 

 cafes, to beat the offenders fo that they mould not Ileal 

 thefe two months again : They did fo ; that was punifh- 

 ment enough in cold blood."—" But my blood," fays he, 

 " never cools with regard to fuch rafcals as thefe : Go (and 

 he called one of his attendants) tell Haffan, the head of the 

 caravan, from me, that unlefs he hangs that Arab before 

 fun-rife to-morrow, I will carry him in irons to Furfhout." 



Upon this meflage I took my leave ; faying only, " Huf- 

 fein Bey, take my advice ; procure a veilel and fend thefe 

 Turks over to Mecca before you leave this town, or, be af- 

 fured they will all be made refponfible for the death of 

 this Arab ; will be flripped naked, and perhaps murdered, 

 as foon as your back is turned." It was all I could do to 

 get them protected thus far. This meafure was already 

 provided for, and the poor Turks joyfully embarked next 

 morning. The thief was not at all moleited : he was fent 

 out of the way, under pretence that he had fled. 



Cosseir has been miflaken by different authors. Mr 

 Huet, Bifhop of Avranches, fays, It is the Myos Hormos 

 of antiquity ; others, the Philoteras Portus of Ptolemy. 



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