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M^' LUCAS'S 
Great Britain to all the infults, and to all the cruelties wliichthofe 
Barbarians might be difpofed to inflid. 
For this reafon, the force of which will be much more appa- 
rent, if the refpefl in which the office of Interpreter in a Ma- 
hometan Government is ufually held, be confidered, he exprefled 
his defire (and in this defire his eldell: fon, the Bey, entirely con- 
curred) that Mr. Lucas would defer his intended journey till 
the revolted Arabs Ihould be reduced to obedience, and the peace 
of the Defert be reftored. A few days after this requifition, the 
Bey began his march with an army of 300 horfe and 1 500 foot. 
The Shereefs were no fooner Informed of the obftacle which 
had arifen to the journey of their intended fellow-traveller, than 
they exprelTed as much chagrin and difappointment as Mr. 
Lucas himfelf could feel ; for they faid, that they had already 
fent word to their Sovereign, that they fliould foon have the 
pleafure to prefent to him a Chriflian, who had travelled from 
his native land, (a journey of many moons) with no other view 
than to gratify his wiili to vifit him, and to fee his kingdom of 
Fezzan: — that his anger would fall heavily on them, to whom 
he would attribute the difappointment ; and would probably lead 
him 
