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The reader will remember, that this Arab, Abdel Gin, 

 was the perfon that feized the fervant of Haflan, the Captain 

 of the Caravan, when he was attempting to ileal the Turk's 

 portmanteau out of my tent ; that my people had beat him 

 till he lay upon the ground like dead, and that HufTein Bey, 

 at the complaint of the Caramaniots, had ordered him to be 

 hanged. Now, in order to revenge this, Harlan had told the 

 Ababde that Abdel Gin was an Atouni fpy, that he had de- 

 tected him in the Caravan, and that he was come to learn 

 the number of the Ababde, in order to bring his compa- 

 nions to furprife them. He did not fay one word that he 

 was my fervant, nor that I was at CofTeir ; fo the people 

 thought they had a very meritorious facrifice to make, in 

 the perfon of poor Abdel Gin. 



All palTed now in kindnefs, frefh medicines were afked 

 for the Nimmer, great thankfulnefs, and profeffions, for 

 what they had received, and a prodigious quantity of meat 

 on wooden platters very excellently drefTed, and moll agree- 

 ably diluted with frefh water, from the coldefl rock of Ter- 

 fowey, was fet before me. 



In the mean time, two of my fervants, attended by three 

 of HufTein Bey, came in great anxiety to know what was 

 the matter; and, as neither they nor the Arabs chofe much 

 each others company, I fent them with a Ihort account of 

 the whole to the Bey ; and foon after took my leave, car- 

 rying Abdel Gin along with me, who had been clothed by 

 Ibrahim from head to foot. We were accompanied by two 

 Ababde, in cafe of accident, 



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