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inclination to fee him again. He affured 
me, that all the means employed till that 
time had been attended with no other efFedt 
than that of preferving cleanlinefs around his 
perfonj but that his fufFerings were neither 
leffened, nor were there any hopes of his life. 
I enquired alfo concerning the beautiful Na- 
rina, and was informed that both Ihe and her 
mother were then abfent. Sufpedling that 
fome of the horde had gone in queft of her, 
I was the more anxious on this account to 
depart; and having faluted Haabas, I returned 
to my camp. 
When I got back to my tent, I called my 
people before me, one after the other, being 
defirous of learning from their own mouths 
what were their intentions, in order to dif- 
cover whether there were not fome mutinous 
fellows amongft them, who endeavoured to 
infpire them with a fpirit of fedition and re- 
volt. Their anfwers all tended to the fame 
purpofe, and they grounded their refiftance 
only upon the terror into which my rafhnefs 
had thrown them; but, however incenfed I 
was at this difobedience, and however difa- 
greeable the confequences were likely to be, 
I had not refolution enough to reprimand 
them. 
