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middle of the tent, among which. were two large fhip-blun- - 
derbuffes. He afked me if there was no danger of their go- 
ing off? I faid, that it happened every now and then, when 
their time was come. A very little after this, he took the cu- 
fhion upon which he fat; went out, and placed: himfelf at the 
door of the tent. There'the king’s fervant got hold of him, 
and told him roundly, he muft furnith us with a goat, a kid, 
and forty loaves, and that immediately, and write it off in 
his deftar, or account-book, if he pleafed.. He then went 
away and fent-us a goat and fifty cakes of teff bread. 
But my views upon him did not end ‘here. His feven’ 
~ horfes were all in very bad order, though there was a black 
one among them that had particularly ftruck my fancy. 
In the evening I fent the king’s fervants,:and Janni’s, for a 
check, to try if he would fell that black horfe. The bar- 
gain was immediately’ made for various pieces of goods, 
part of which I had with me, and part I procured from my 
companions in the caravan. Every thing was fafhionable 
and new from Arabia. The value was about L.12. Sterling, 
forty fhillings more than our friend at Dixan had paid for a 
whole family of four perforis. The goods were delivered, 
and the horfe was to be fent in the evening, when he pro- 
ved a brown one, old, and wanting an eye. . I immediately 
returned the horfe; infifting onthe black one; but he pro- 
tefted the black horfe was not his own; that he had returned 
it to its mafter; and, upon a little further difcourfe, faid, 
that it was a horfe he intended.as a prefent for the king. 
My friends treated this with great indifference, and de- 
fired their goods back again, which were accordingly deli- 
vered. But they were no fooner in the tent, when the black 
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