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knew his mailer would complain, and loudly too, and would 

 be heard both at Cairo and Jidda. The Vizir took his refo- 

 lution in a moment like a man. He -nailed .up the baggage, 

 ordered, his horfe to be brought, and attended by a num- 

 ber of naked blackguards (whom they call foldiers) he came 

 down to the Bengal houfe, on which the whole factory took, 

 alarm. 



About twenty-fix years before, the EngliiK traders from 

 India, to Jidda, fourteen in number, were all murdered, fit- 

 ting at dinner, by a mutiny of thefe wild people. The houfe 

 has, ever fince, lain in ruins, having been pulled down and* 

 forbidden to be rebuilt. 



Great inquiry was made after the EnglifK nobleman,, 

 whom nobody had feen; but it was faid that one of his 

 fervants was there in the Bengal houfe ; I was fitting drink- 

 ing coffee on the mat, when the Vizir's horfe came, and : 

 the whole court was filled. One of the clerks of the cuf- 

 tom-houfe afked me where my mailer was? I faid, " In 

 heaven." The Emir Bahar's fervant now brought forward 

 the Vizir to me, who had not difmounted himfelf. He re- 

 peated the fame queftion, where my mailer was ?— - 1 told 

 him, I did not know the purport of his -queftion, that I was 

 the perfon to whom the baggage belonged, which he had 

 taken to the cuftom-houfe, and that it was in my favour the 

 Grand Signior and Bey, had written. He feemed very much 

 furprifed, and aiked me how I could appear in fuch a drcfs? 

 - — " You cannot aikthat feriouily, faid I ; I believe no pru- 

 dent man would drefs better, confidering the voyage I 

 have made., But, befides, you did not leave it in my power, 



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