JOB BEN SOLQMON. 
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country* He was introduced to the king, queen, 
and the rest of the royal family, and received 
from her majesty the present of a handsome gold 
watch. The Duke of Montagu invited him fre- 
quently to his house, where he was introduced 
to the principal nobility. He learned to speak 
and write English, and was even able to assist 
Sir Hans Sloane in the translation of Arabic ma- 
nuscripts. His memory is said to have been very 
extraordinary. He wrote out three copies of the 
Koran, merely from recollection, and without 
using the first in making out the two others. He 
had a peculiar turn for mechanism. Though a 
zealous Mahometan, he talked in a very tempe- 
rate and rational manner on the subject of reli- 
gion. He considered his captivity as fortunate, 
from its enabling him to acquire various branches 
of knowledge, of which he must otherwise have 
remained ignorant. 
Job set sail from England in July 1734, and 
arrived at Fort James on the 8th of August. 
Notwithstanding the gentleness of his disposition, 
which is much extolled, he shewed a very furious 
antipathy to all individuals belonging to the na- 
tion who had reduced him to slavery ; and he 
was even with difficulty prevented from attack- 
ing and killing them. He testified extraordinary 
exultation at learning that the king who had 
thrown him into slavery was afterwards killed, in 
