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replied to one another alternately, In notes full of pleafant melody,

Ei can tare pares Sff refpondere paral't —

Virgil.

till I fell fall afleep, involuntarily, and with regret, for, tho' bruifed, we were not fatigued, but rather difcouraged, ha- ving gone no further than two miles that day.

The landlord of the hut where I was afleep having pre- pared for our fafety and that of our baggage, thought him- felf bound in duty to go and give immediate information to the prime minifter of the unexpedled guells that then oc- cupied his houfe. He found Adelan at fupper, but was im- mediately admitted, and a variety of quellions afked him, which he anfwered fully. He defcribed our colour, our number, the unufual lize and number of our fire-arms, the poornefs of our attire, and, above all, our great chearful- nefs, quietnefs, and affability, our being contented with eat- ing any thing, and in particular mentioned the hogs flefh. One man then prefent, teflifying abhorrence to this, Adelan faid of me to our landlord, " Why, he is a foldier and a Kafr like yourfelf. A foldier and a Kafr, when travelling in a ftrange country, fliould eat every thing, and fo does every other man that is wife ; has he not a fervant of mine with him ?" He anfwered, " Yes, and a fervant of the king too ; but he had left them, and was gone forward to Sennaar." " Go you with them, fays he, and flay with them at Baf- boch till I have time to fend for them to town." He had returned from Aira long before we arofe^ and told us the converfation, which was great comfort to us all, for we

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