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glafs, flat in the fides. like the amber-beads formerly ufed: 
by the better fort of the old women-peafants in England. 
All our beads were ‘then rejected, by fix or feven dozen of 
the fhrilleft tongues I ever heard. ‘They decried our mer- 
chandize in.fuch a manner, that I thought they meant to 
condemn them.as unfaleable, to be confifcated or deftroyeds. 
Let every man, travelling in fuch countries as thefe, res. 
member, that there is no perfon, however mean, who is 
in his company, that does. not:merit.attention, kindnefs, 
and'complacency. Let no man in:travelling exalt himfelf 
above the loweft, in:a greater: degree than he is able to do 
fuperior fervice; for. many that have-thought: themfelves. 
{afe, and-been inattentive to this, have perifhed by the uns. 
fufpected machinations. of. the loweft and meaneft wretch: 
among them. Few: have either made fuch long or fuch fre 
quent journies of this kind asI, and I fcarcely recollect. any. 
perfon. fo infignificant that, before the end of a moderate: 
journey, had not it in his.power to return you like for like: 
for your charity or unkindnefs, be the difference of your: 
quality and condition what it would, 
Or all the men in our company, none liad any ftock of* 
the true fmall iky- blue beads, and no one had one grain of : 
the large yellow-glafs ones, but the poor Moor, whofe afs 
was bit by the hyzna near:Lila, and whofe cargo, likely to. 
be left behind-at the foot of Taranta, I had diftributed as 
mong the reft of the affes of the caravan; and, leaving the 
wounded one for the price: he would fetch, had: next day 
bought him another at Halai, with which, fince that time; . 
he continued his journey. . That fellow had felt the obliga- 
don. in filence ; and not one word, but Good-day, and Goods 
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