26 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 
lieve, that to fend me to Hamazen is to rob and murder me 
out of fight.”—* Dog of a Chriftian !” fays Emir Achmet, 
putting his hand to his knife, “ if the Naybe was to mur- 
der you, could he not doit here now this minute ?’—* No,” 
fays the man, who had called himfelf Sardar, “he could 
not; I would not fuffer any fuch thing. Achmet is the 
ftranger’s friend, and recommended me to-day to fee no in- 
jury-done him; he is ill, or would have been here himfelf” 
“Acumet,’ faid I, “is my friend, and fears God; and 
were I not hindered by the Naybe from feeing him, his fick- 
nefs before this would have been removed.. I will go to 
Achmet at Arkeeko, but not to Hamazen, nor ever again to 
the Naybe here in Mafuah. Whatever happens to me mutt 
befal me in my own houfe. Confider what a figure a few 
naked men will make the day that my countrymen afk the 
reafon of this either. here or in Arabia.” I then turned my 
back, and went out without ceremony. “ A brave man!” 
Theard a voice fay behind me, “ Wallah Englefe! True Englith,. 
by G—d!” T-went away exceedingly difturbed, as it was. 
plain my affairs were coming to a crifis for good or for evil. 
1 obferved, or thought I obferved, all the people fhun me. I 
was, indeed, upon my guard, and did not wifh them to come 
near me; but, turning down into my own gateway, a man 
pafled clofe by me, faying-diftin@lly in my ear, though in a> 
low voice; firftin Tigré and thenin Arabic, “ Fear nothing, or,. 
Be not afraid.” This hint, fhort as it was, gave me no {mall . 
courage. 
I nap fearcely dined, when a-fervant came with a letter- 
from Achmet at Arkeeko, telling me how ill he had_been,. 
and how forry he was that I refufed to come to fee him, as. 
| i Mahomet: 
