£4 | TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
or to the regency: of Cairo, and port of Janizaries——here 
are their letters—or to the fherriffe of Mecca. To you, Sir, I 
prefent the fherriffe’s letters ; and, befides thefe, one from 
Metigal Aga your friend, who, depending on your character, 
affured me this alone would be fufficient to preferve me 
from ill-ufage fo long as I did no. wrong: as for the dan- 
gers of the road from banditti and lawlefs perfons, my fer- 
vants are indeed few, but they are veterar. foldiers, tried 
and exercifed from their infancy in arms, and I value not the 
{uperior number of cowardly and diforderly perfons.” 
He then returned me the letters, faying, “ You will give 
thefe to the Naybe to-morrow; I will keep Metical’s letter, 
as it is to me, and will read it at home.” He put it accord- 
ingly in his bofom; and our coffee being done, I rofe to take 
my leave, and was prefently wet to the fkin by deluges of 
orange flower-water fhowered upon me from the right and 
left, by two of his attendants, from filver bottles. 
A very decent houfe had been provided; and I had no 
fooner entered, than a large dinner was fent us by Achmet, 
with 2 profufion of lemons, and good frefh water, now be- 
come one of the greateft delicacies in life; and, inftantly 
after, our baggage was all fent unopened; with which I 
was very well-pleafed, being afraid they might break fome- 
thing in my clock, telefcopes, or quadrant, by the violent 
manner in which they fatisfy their curiofity. 
Late at night I received a vifit from Achmet; he was 
then in an undrefs, his body quite naked, a barracan thrown 
loofely about him; he had a pair of calico drawers; a white 
coul, or cotton. cap, upon his head, and had no fort of 
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