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upon the road, at a distance from any town chap. 
or village, where he could not be observed by 
any other Moslem, one of us, coming behind 
him, conveyed the packet into his hand. He 
no sooner saw what it contained, than, mut- 
tering his {Alhhamdu If Hah) ''God be praised/''' 
with great energy he fell to work, making as 
hearty a meal as any of us had done before : 
and in this manner we took care afterwards that 
he should be regularly supplied, leaving him 
to slake his thirst, as he could, from the foun- 
tains which we passed upon the road. 
We found no medals, nor inscriptions, nor 
any other antiquities, at Yen'iga. It contains 
about two hundred houses. The inhabitants 
are all Turks, who carry on a commerce in 
tobacco. The post is here established, or it 
would be a place of little note. During the 
whole night, the noise of a large drum, con- 
tinually passing, added to the uproar of the 
Ramadan : and as it is almost an act of religious 
duty among the Moslerri^ to prevent people 
from taking rest during the nights of this fast, 
it may be supposed that our sleep was not 
very sound. In the morning, {Tuesday, Jan. 5,) 
before we left the town, observing that it was 
a market-day, we examined the things offered 
