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13 the right one. The captain, furious with this disappointment, returned again with the troop to the forest : and the second rob- ber was also condemned to death, The captain having thus lost two of his troop, judged that their hands were more active than their heads in such services; and he resolved to employ no other of them, but to go himself upon the business. Accordingly he repaired to the city, and addressed himself to the cobbler Mustapha ; who, for six pieces of gold, readily perform- ed the same sevices for him he had done for the two other strangers : and the cap- ain, much wiser than his men, did not amuse himself with setting a mark upon the door, but attentively considered the house, courted the number of its widows, and pas- it very often to be certain that he should know it again. He then returned to the forest, and cr. Hered his troop to go into the town, and uy nineteen mules and thirty-eight large ars, one full of oil, and the rest empty. In two or three days the jars were brought, and all things in readiness, and the captain having put a man into each jar, properly firmed, the jars being robbed on the outside with oil, and the covers having holes bored them for the men to breathe through, bailer his mules, and in the habit of an oil- herchant. entered the town in the dusk of ne evening. He proceeded to the street