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in the leaft, the import of the terms, I give it to the reader 

 that he may know by what defcription he is to buy an ex- 

 cellent fabre. It is called Suggaro Tabanne Harefanne A- 

 gemmi,yo/- Sidi Hajfan ofFurfhouU 



Although pretty much ufed to ilifle my refentment 

 upon impertinences of this kind, I could not, after the trick 

 he had played me with the Ababde, carry it indifferently ; 

 I threw the billet before the Bey, faying to HafTan, "A fword 

 of that value would be ufelefs and mifemployed in the hand 

 of a coward and a traitor, fuch as furely you • mufl be fen- 

 fible I know you to be." He looked to the Bey as if appeal- 

 ing to him, from the incivility of the obfervation ; but the 

 Bey, without fcruple, anfwered, "It is true, it is true what 

 he fays, HafTan ; if I was in Ali Bey's place, when you dared 

 ufe a ftranger of mine, or any ftranger, as you have done 

 him, I would plant you upon a iharp flake in the market- 

 place, till the boys in the town floned you to death ; but, 

 he has complained of you in a letter, and I will be a witnefs 

 againfl you before Hamam } for your conduct is not that o£ ; 

 a Miijfulman." 



While I was engaged' with the Ababde, a veffel was 

 feen in diftrefs in. the offing, and all the boats went out 

 and towed her in. It was the veffel in which the twenty- 

 five Turks had embarked, which had been heavily loaded- 

 Nothing is fo dreadful, as the embarkation in that f ea ; for 

 the boats have no decks ; the whole, from flern to ftem, be- 

 ing filled choak-fullof wheat, the wafle, that is the flope of- 

 theveffel.,betweentheheightofherflemandflern,isfilledupby 

 oneplankon each fide, which is all that is above the furfacc 

 of the waves,. Sacks, tarpaulins, or mats, are fl.ro wed- along- 



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