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I sent my servant immediately on shore with letters 
to the merehant Sidi Mohamed Nas, who was charged 
with my affairs. 
I went ashore myself in a boat about noon. I was 
very well received, and lodged in an apartment adorn- 
ed with every eastern luxury. They immediately served 
up a grand repast. 
At sun- set the ship arrived in the inner port; and 
the next morning, my servants and effects being dis- 
embarked, I established myself in a house of my own. 
I felt myself much indisposed and very weak, so 
that I could scarcely move myself. The four first days 
after I landed I had a fever, notwithstanding which I 
went to the mosque on Friday, where I met with a 
disagreeable circumstance, which I shall relate. 
The day after my arrival, the Governor, who was a 
negro, named Ouisir, and had been a slave to the Sul- 
tan Scheriff of Mecca, sent to tell me that he had been 
informed I had some saddles, and that he desired to 
see them. It was clear that the drift of this proceeding' 
was to obtain one of them as a present; but as I had 
not received any mark of consideration from this per- 
sonage, and as I did not either want his services or 
fear him, I ordered my groom to carry the five saddles 
to his house, but only to allow him to look at them. 
The Governor having examined them, let some in- 
direct hints escape him; but my servant pretended not 
to understand him, and agreeable to my instructions 
brought them all away. 
It appeared that this circumstance hurt the pride of 
the Governor, who, to revenge himself, tried to offer 
me some public insult, which he carried into execu- 
tion on the following Friday. 
I had been in the habit, in all the countries through 
