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out about a quarter of an hour, when we were again call- 
ed in. : ; . ; 
I cannor fay but I enjoyed heartily the fright I had vi- 
fibly given him ; it feemed to me that Aylo’s brother, Gue- 
bra Ehud, was the only perfon whom he confulted, for it 
was he alone that remained with him in his tent when we 
entered; he had changed his drefs; a man was combing 
his hair, and perfuming it; and he had a new, white, fine: 
_c¢otton cloth thrown about his middle loofely, which cover- 
ed his legs and feet, his breafts, neck, and fhoulders, being 
quite naked ; he rofe half up from his feat when I came in,. 
made me ft down on a cufhion befide him, and was going: 
to fpeak, when I refolved to have the firft word, for fear he 
fhould engage me in more difcuffions. “Your continual 
hurry, faid I, all the times I have feen you, has put it out of 
my power till now to make you the acknowledgment it is 
ordinary for ftrangers to prefent when they vifit great men’ 
in their own country, and afk favours of them.” I then took 
a napkin, and opened it before him ; he feemed to have for- 
got the prefent altogether, but from that moment I faw his 
countenance changed, he was like another man. “O Yagoube,, 
fays he, a prefent to me! you fhould be fenfible that is per- 
fectly needle{s; you were recommended to me by the King 
and the Ras; you know, fays he, we are friends, and I 
would do twenty times as much for yourfelf, without re- 
commendation from either ; befides, I have not behaved to. 
you like a great man.” : 
Ir was. not a very hard thing to conquer thefe fcruples ;: 
- he took the feveral pieces of the prefent one by one in his: 
hands, and examined them; there was a crimfon filk fath,. 
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