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old diforder in his lungs, I found him yet fenfible, but his 
eyes were fixed, and the extremities incapable of motion. In 
five hours afterwards he expired. Thus were blafted my re- 
turning hopes of fuccefs j for no mediator now remained be- 
tween myfelf and the monarch, and no longer was there near 
the court a man, even of feeming liberality and good fenfe, to 
whom my projedts might fafely be opened. 
The tranfa£tions I had been engaged in, and my frequent ap- 
pearance in public, had given me a degree of notoriety, which I 
fhunned rather than fought. Having learned by accident that 
I was in poiTefTion of a few medicines, which indeed were ra- 
ther ftudioufly concealed, all the town grew indifpofed, and 
fought for remedies. Under various pretences, I as often as 
poffible declined adminifterlng any ; but one or two of the fick 
having recovered, fpread the news of their fuppofed cure, with 
fuch additions as they thought proper. It then became necef- 
fary for me to attend at El Fafher, whither I was fent for on 
feveral occafions, in the courfe of the fubfequent year. Soon 
after Mufa's death, a meflenger arrived requiring my prefence, 
but, as is ufual with them, without fpecifying the objedt. Judg- 
ing it might poffibly be fomething favourable to my interefts, I 
ufed all poffible difpatch. On my arrival I was diredled to at- 
tend the Faqui Seradge^ the principal Imam, who was ill of a 
fiftula. It appeared that palliatives could afford him no relief, 
and I declined the refponfibility attached to more violent reme- 
dies. On this occafion however the Sultan had feen me, and 
addreffed me perfonally, telling me that he fhould give orders 
for the payment of what was due to me, and that he fhould 
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