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Rh janizary of Cairo, was last come from hell, where there was not one devil, but thouands, from a country of Kafrs that called themselves Muulmen; that he had walked through a desert where the earth was on fire and the wind was flame, and in fear of dying every day with thirt and hunger.

The oldier who heard him talk in this disjointed, raving manner, deired him to go with him to the Aga. This was the very thing that Imael wanted. He only deired time to acquaint his companions. "Have you companions, says the soldier, from uch a country?"—"Companions! ays smael; what the devil! do you imagine I came this journey alone?"—"If the journey, says the man, is uch as you decribe it, I do not think many would go with you; well, go along with my companions, and I will seek yours, but how hall I find them?"—"Go, ays Imael, to the palm-trees, and when you find the tallet man you ever aw in your life, more ragged and dirty than I am, call him Yagoube, and deire him to come along with you to the Aga."

The oldier accordingly found me till itting at the root of the palm-tree. The ervants, who had now atified their thirt, and were uncertain what was next to be done, were itting together at some ditance from me. They began to feel their own wearine, and were inclined to leave me to a little repoe, which they hoped might enable me to overcome mine. For my own part, a dullne and inenibility, an univeral relaxation of pirits which I cannot decribe, a kind of tupor, or paly of the mind, had overtaken me, almost to a deprivation of undertanding. I found