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arrive at Dixan, where I promifed to procure him another 
which might enable him to continue his journey. 
Tuis propofal gave univerfal fatisfaction to our Mahome- 
tan attendants. Yafine {wore that my conduct was a re- 
proach to them all, for that, though a Chriftian, I had fet 
them an example of charity to their poor brother, highly 
neceflary to procure God’s bleffing upon their journey, but 
which fhould properly have come firft from themfelves. 
After a great deal of ftrife of kindnefs, it was agreed that I 
fhould pay one-third, that the lame afs fhould go for what 
it was worth, and the Moors of the caravan make up the 
difference. 
Tus being ended, I foon perceived the good effect. © My 
baggage moved much more brifkly than the preceding day. 
The upper part of the mountain was, indeed,-fteeper, more 
craggy, rugged, and flippery than the lower, and impeded 
more with trees, but not embarraffed fo much with large 
{tones and holes. Our knees and hands, however, were cut 
to pieces by frequent falls, and our faces torn by the mul- 
titude of thorny bufhes. I twenty times now thought of 
what Achmet had told me at parting, that I fhould curfe him 
for the bad road fhewn to me over Taranta; but blefs him 
for the quiet and fafety attending me in that paflage. 
Tue middle of the mountain was thinner of trees than 
the two extremes’; they were chiefly wild olives which-bear 
no fruit. The upper part was clofe covered with groves 
of the oxy cedrus, the Virginia, or berry-bearing cedar, in 
- the language of the country called Arze. At laft we gained 
the top of the mountain, upon which is fituated a {mall vil- 
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