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or of active expression. Before I took my leave, he repeated 
his assurances of every aid in his power, to facilitate my excur¬ 
sions into the desert; but he reminded me, that as the Arabs 
were in greatest force in the immediate neighbourhood of the 
parts I most wished to visit, I must not venture at any time to 
stray from my escort, which he had selected from the most 
efficient of his people. Of course I expressed proper deference, 
and proper thanks ; and, with a repetition of the formalities with 
which I entered, retired from the pavilion. 
I proceeded next to the quarters of Abdallah, the deposed 
Pasha of Suliemania. This brave prince had been deprived of 
his authority in consequence of his fidelity to the Porte ; the 
more powerful arms, and keener policy of Mahmoud Ali Mirza, 
having driven him from that part of Courdistan, and nominated 
another governor in his stead. Abdallah resides at the court of 
Dowd; and though stript of his dominions, still brings a few 
followers, brave as himself, to the assistance of his hospitable 
ally. I had met the chief at Mr. Rich’s; and was so pleased 
with the manly frankness of his manners, that I hastened with 
no small alacrity from the stage-like solemnities of the kiahya’s 
pavilion, to truth and nature under the rougher canvas of the 
Gourd. 
He received myself and companions with affability and warmth; 
and when we took our seats, which we did near him and his 
treasurer, (that officer being the only one in his train allowed to 
sit in his presence,) the conversation commenced with freedom ; 
differing in substance, as well as in manner, from the costive 
pomposity with which the Turks announce their meagre sen¬ 
tences. Abdallah spoke with openness of his own circumstances ; 
delivered his opinions on the objects about him, with the same 
