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of April, was 27 8', and, the loweft on the 27th, was 26° 11', 

 The thermometer, on the 24th of April, at two o'clock in 

 the afternoon, Hood at 91 , and the loweft was 66° in the 

 morning of the 26th of fame month. Yambo is reputed 

 very unwholefome, but there were no epidemical difeafes 

 when I was there. 



The many delays of loading the wheat, the defire of 

 doubling the quantity I had permitted, in which both the Rais 

 and my friend the cadi confpired for their mutual intereft, 

 detained me at Yambo all the 27th of April, very much a- 

 gainft my inclination. For I was not a little uneafy at 

 thinking among what banditti I lived, whofe daily wiih was 

 to rob and murder me, from which they were reftrained 

 by fear only ; and this, a fit of drunkennefs, or a piece of 

 bad news, fuch as a report of Ali Bey's death, might remove 

 in a moment. Indeed we were allowed to want nothing. 

 A fheep, fome bad beer, and fome very good wheat-bread, 

 were delivered to us every day from the Aga, which, with 

 dates and honey, and a variety of prefents from thofe that 

 I attended as a phyfician, made us pafs our time comfort- 

 ably enough ; we went frequently in the boats to fifh at 

 fea, and, as I had brought with me three fizgigs of differ- 

 ent fizes, with the proper lines, I feldom returned without 

 killing four or five dolphins. The fport with the line was 

 likewife excellent. We caught a number of beautiful fifh 

 from the very houfe where we lodged, and fome few good 

 ones. We had vinegar in plenty at Yambo; onions, and 

 feveral other greens, from Raddua ; and, being all cooks, we 

 lived well. 



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