THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. * 
. .Mauomer Gigserti, Metical Aga’s fervant, had come in 
the boat with me; but Abdelcader, who carried the mef- 
fage and firman, and who was governor of the ifland of Da- 
halac, had failed at fame time with me, and had been 
{pectator of the honour which was paid my fhip when fhe 
left the harbour of Jidda. , 
Runnine ftraight over to Mafuah, Abdelcader had pros 
claimed what he had feen with great exaggeration, accord- 
ing to the cuftom of his country ; and reported that a prince 
was coming, a very near relation to the king of England, 
who was no trader, but came only to vifit countries and. 
people. 
Ir was many times, and oft agitated (as we knew after- 
wards) between the Naybe and his counfellors, what was 
to be done with this prince. Some were for the moft expe- 
ditious, and what has long been the moft cuftomary me- 
thod of treating ftrangers in Mafuah, to put them to death, 
and divide every thing they had among the garrifon. O- 
thers infifted, that they fhould ftay and fee what letters I had 
from Arabia to Abyflinia, left this might prove an addition 
to the ftorm juft ready to break upon them.on the part of. 
Metical Aga and Michael Suhul. 
But Achmet, the Nay be’s nephew, faid, it was folly to» 
doubt but that a man, under the defcription I. was,. would: 
have protections of every kind.; but whether. I-had.or not,, 
that my very rank {hould. protect me in every place where 
there was any government whatever it might do even a- 
mong banditti and thieves inhabiting woods and mountains; 
that a. fuflicient quantity of ftrangers blood. had been ale 
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