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v/ith will not be eafily palled over either in Abyflinia or at. Sennaar. I am neither fcrvant nor merchant ; and it has been your ill-luck to try your wicked experiments upon a man like me, who never in his life carried much money a- bout him, becaujfe he never valued it." Moid. You muft forget all, and I will be your friend with the Shckh, fince you come from the Iherriffe of Mecca." « And I, too, fays the other, for the kindnefs you have ihewed our brother Ifmael there, in carrying him home from among the Kafrs of Habefli ; and if Fidele cannot procure camels, we will try and help him ; fo go in peace, .and get ready."
We had fcarte got rid of this real danger, when the ap- prehenfion of an imaginary one Uruck us violently. The water at Teawa is llagnant in pools, and exceedingly bad. Either that, or the bouza, a kind of new beer which they fent us with our meat, had given all of us, at the fame time, a violent diarrhoea, and I was tormented with a perpetual thirll ever fince we had been overtaken by the fxmoom ; and the bouza being acid, was not only more agreeable, but, I thought, relieved me more than bad water ; in this, therefore, 1 certainly had exceeded. When we found we were all taken ill at the fame time, it came into our wife heads that Shekh Fidele had given us poifon in our dinner, and we were very much perplexed what we fhould do the next day. None of us, therefore, tailed the meat fent us ; when at night, our friemi, the black Have came, and to her we frankly told our doubts. The poor creature fell into fuch violent fits of laughing, which followed fo clofe the pne upon the other, and lafied fo long, that I feared flie would have expired upon the fpot. " It is the water, fays .ilie; it docs fo to all flrangers ;" and then flie fell into an- other
