THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 1. 
arms whatever. I rofeup to meet him, and thank him for 
his civility in fending my baggage; and when I obferved, 
defides, that it was my duty to wait upon him, rather than 
fuffer him to give himfelf this trouble, he took me by the 
hand, and we fat down on. two cuthions together. 
“Ar that youmentioned,” faid he, “is perfe@ly good and 
‘well; but there are queftions that I am going to afk you: 
_which.are of confequence iv yourfelf. When you arrived 
at Jidda, we heard it was a great man, a fon or brother of a 
king, going toIndia. This was communicated to me, and. 
to the Naybe, by people that faw every day the refpect paid. 
to you by the captains of the fhips at Jidda. Metical Aga, 
in his private letter delivered to the Naybe laft night by- 
- Mahomet Gibberti, among many unufual expreffions, {aid, 
The day that any accident befals this perfon will be looked. 
upon. by me always as the moft unfortunate of my life. 
Now, you are a Chriftian, and he is a Muffulman, and thefe. 
are expreffions of a particular regard not ufed by the one 
when writing of the other. He fays, moreover, that, in your 
firman, the grand fignior ftiles you Bey-Adzé, or Moft Noble. 
‘Fell me, therefore, and tell me truly, Are you a prince, fon, 
brother, or. nephew of a king? Are you banifhed from. 
your own.country; and what is it that you feek in our’s, ex-- 
pofing yourfelf to fo many difficulties and dangers?” 
“ T aw neither fon, nor brother of a king. I’am a-pri- 
vate Englifhman. If you, Sidi Achmet, faw my prince, the: 
eldeft, or any fon of the king of England, you would then 
be able to form.a jufter idea of them, and that would for 
ever hinder you from confounding them with common ’ 
men like me. If they were.to choofe to appear in this part. 
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