28 
MR- LEDYARD'^s 
Order of RecoUets : a number of Enp-lifli, as well as other Eu* 
ropeaii travellers, have lodged there. 
" Auguft 2 1(1:. It is now about the hotteft feafon of the- 
year here ; but I think I have felt it warmer in the City of Phi- 
ladelphia, in the fame month. 
" Auguft 26th. This day I was introduced by Rofetti to 
the Aga Mahommed, the confidential Minifter of Ifmael, the 
moll powerful of the four ruling Beys : he gave me his hand 
to kifs, and with it the promife of letters, protection, and fup- 
port, through Turkifli Nubia, and alfo to fome Chiefs far inland. 
In a fubfequent converfation, he told me I fliould fee in my tra- 
vels a people Avho had power to tranfmutate themfelves into the 
forms of different animals. He afked me what I thought of the 
afTair ? I did not like to render the ignorance, limplicity, and 
credulity of the Turk apparent. I told him, that it formed a part ' 
of the chara6ler of all Savages to be great Necromancers ; but 
that I had ncs^r before heard of any fo great as thofe which he 
had done me the honour to defcribe ; that it had rendered me 
more anxious to be on my voyage, and if I palTed among them, 
I would, in the letter I promifed to write to him, give him a more 
particular account of them than he had hitherto had. — He afked 
me 
