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men the Beni Koreifh, then Pagans at Beder Hunein, that 

 Mahomet prayed to God, and a grove of balfam-trees grew 

 tip from the blood of the flain upon the field of battle ; and, 

 that with the balfam that flowed from them he touched 

 the wounds even of thofe that were dead, and all thofe pre- 

 deftined to be good Mujfulmen afterwards, immediately came 

 to life. " I hope, faid I, friend, that the other things you 

 told me of it, are fully as true as this, for they will other- 

 wife laugh at me in England." " No, no, fays he, not half 

 fo true, nor a quarter fo true, there is nothing in the world 

 fo certain as this." But his looks, and his laughing very 

 heartily, mewed me plainly he knew better, as indeed moll 

 of them do. 



In the evening, before we departed, about nine o'clock,. 

 I had an unexpected vifit from the youngeft of the two 

 Agas ; who, after many pretended complaints of ficknefs, 

 and injunctions of fecrecy, at laft modeftly requefted me to 

 give him fome JJoin ' poifon, that might kill bis brother, without 

 fufpicion, and after fome time mould elapfe. I told him, 

 fuch propofals were not to be made to a man like me ; that 

 all the gold, and all the filver in the world, would not en- 

 gage me to poifon the pooreft vagrant in the ftreet, fuppo- 

 fmg it never was to be fufpected, or known but to my own 

 heart. All he faid, was, " Then your manners are not the 

 fame as ours." — I anfwered, dryly, " Mine, I thank God, are 

 not," and fo we parted* 



Yambo, or at leafl the prefent town of that name, I found, 

 by many obfervations of the fun and ftars, to be in latitude 

 2 4° 3' 2>$" north, and in long. 38 16' 30" eaft from the meri- 

 dian of Greenwich. The barometer, at its highefl, on the 23d 



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