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_ pleaded his poverty and his want of relations that could af- 
fift him ; on which, the old prieft offered to place his eldeft 
fon with a rich friend of his own, who had no children; 
and where he fhould want for nothing. The propofal was 
accepted, and the young lad, about ten years of age, was de- 
livered by his father to the old prieft, to carry him to this 
friend, who fent the boy to Dixan and fold him there. Up- 
on the old prieft’s return, after giving the father a fplendid 
account of his fon’s reception, treatment, and profpects, he 
gave him apiece of cotton cloth, as a prefent from his 
fon’s patron. 
Tue younger child, about eight years old, hearing the 
good fortune of his elder brother, became fo importunate to 
be allowed to goand vifit him, that the parents were obliged 
to humour him, and confent. But the old prieft had a fcru- 
‘ple, faying he would not take the charge of fo young a 
- boy, unlefs his mother went with him. This being fet- 
tled, the old prieft conveyed them to the market at Dixan, 
where he fold both the mother and the remaining child. 
Returninc to the father, the old prieft told him, that his 
wife would ftay only fo long, and expected he would then 
fetch her,upon a certain day, which was named. The day 
being come, the two priefts went together te fee this happy 
family; and, upon their entering Dixan, it was found that 
the old prieft had fold the young one, but not to the fame 
Moor to whom he had fold his family. Soon after, thefe 
two Moors, who had bought the Chriftians, becoming part- 
_hers in the venture, the old prieft was to receive forty cot- 
" ton-cloths, that 1 a, L.10 Sterling, for the hutband, wife, and 
children. 
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