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there is a poor man making great hafte to be aflaffinated 
among thofe wild people in Habeth ; and fo we all thought. 
He concluded, Drink! no force! Englifhman! very good! 
G--d damn, drink!” We had jutt arrived, while my friend 
was uttering thefe exclamations, at the place where theShum 
and the reft were ftanding. The man continued repeating 
the fame words, crying as loud as he could, with an air 
of triumph, while I was reflecting how fhameful it was 
for us to make thefe profligate expreflions by frequent re- 
petition, fo eafily acquired by ftrangers that knew nothing 
elfe.of our language. ; 
Tue Shum, and all about him, were in equal aftonifh- 
- mentat feeing the man, to all appearance, in a-paflion, bawl- 
ing out words they did not underftand; but he, holding a 
horn in his hand, began louder than before, drink! very 
good! Englifhman! fhaking the horn in the Shum his ma- 
fler’s face. Mahomet of Alata was a very grave, compofed 
man ; “I do-declare, fays he, Ali is become mad: Does any- 
body know what he fays or means ?”—“ That Ido, faid I, and 
avill tell you by-and-bye; he is an old acquaintance of mine, 
and is fpeaking Englifh; let us make a hafty meal, how- 
ever, with any thing you have to give us.” 
Our horfes were immediately fed; bread, honey, and 
butter ferved ; Ali had no occafion to cry, drink 3,it went a- 
bout plentifully, and I would ftay no longer, but mounted 
my horfe, thinking every minute that I tarried might be 
better {pent at the cataract. The firft thing they carried us - 
to was the bridge, which confifts of one arch of about twen- 
ty-five feet broad, the extremities of which were ftrongly let 
into, and zefted on the folid rock on both fides ; but frag- 
2 - ments 
