horſe was my ſervant, and had already been abundantly satisfied. I desired Yasine to add, that I hoped, in order to a continuation of that friendſhip, he would avoid, in his own particular command, or in that of his relations, attacking where the king was in person, becauſe it was my indiſpensible duty to be there, and that his nephew might not eſcape with the loss of a horse, if he again happened to be engaged with the Moorish troops, who, though under my command, were Mahometans, strangers to the language, and to whom it was impossible for me to convey any distinction of persons. Gusho was exceedingly ſensible of this civil return of the horse; he cloathed Yasine magnificently, made him a preſent of another horse, and sent a very flattering meſſage by him to me.
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