very respectable Moor, who, having been robbed of every thing on the road from Soudan, was now recovering himself a little by the sheikh’s liberality to the distressed: he was present, and certainly helped me out greatly. “ Will my lord listen to me ?” said h e : “ what the rais has just told my lord, I can vouch for the truth of. My lord knows, that the brother of my heart, my youngest brother, Ab’deen, trades to Smyrna and Suez : he fell into the hands of these worst of kaffirs, and with twenty others, Moslem, was taken out of a Greek vessel, with their hands bound ready for execution, by an English captain, who fed and clothed them, and landed them at Smyrna. In short, the English, as I have heard, and believe, made war for twenty years, for no other purpose but to obtain peace.” “ Wonderful! ” said the sheikh; “ but where is the profit of all this ?” “ That, my lord must inquire of themselves: their wars cannot bring them profit, but, on the contrary, must cost them great sums.” “ But what will they do with Tunis ?” said the sheikh, turning to me; “ they have many large-mouthed guns, and plenty of gunpowder:— can three or four ships force them to do as you wish?—No charms will have any effect, believe me, for they have a fighi of great power and knowledge.” “ Probably so,” returned I ; “ we seldom fight with such weapons—indeed it is probable there will be no fighting at all. If these four ships prevent all intercourse between them and the other nations with whom they trade, will they not. be glad to listen to reason for the sake of obtaining peace, and a renewal of then- trade and free intercourse ?” “ True, true,” said the sheikh, “ most tru e ; you are a thinking people.” June 4. This afternoon, I was sent for to the palace in a most violent hurry, as one of the young princes had swallowed a fish-bone, or a piece of wood, and was choking. I hurried on my bornouse, and made the best haste I could; and although the distance was not above five hundred yards, the sand, which is always nearly up to the ancles in the streets, prevented the possibility of moving very quick; and the Agá Gana, and Mady Sala, two of the sheikh’s negro chamberlains, who had been sent for me, soon got some way in advance: they made signs, and called out to me, in great distress, to come on ■ which I answered with, the perspiration flowing down my cheeks, “ Softly! softly !” This answer, it seems, did not accord with their impatience, which was in proportion to that their master had displayed in despatching them for me; without a word, therefore, they both came running back to me,* seized me in their arms, and in Ébout three minutes placed me on the steps leading to the sheikh’s terrace. Had they desired any of the four slaves by whom they were each of them followed to have done this, I : certainly: should have been inclined to rebel; but when these lords of the bedchamber themselves condescended to bear me in their arms, which they did with great gentleness, I took it, as I have no doubt it was meant, in good part. I found the young prince with something or other in his throat, which would neither come up nor go down. I at first thought of covering a pistol ramrod with rag, and introducing that, but I afterwards determined to try some large. pills of wax candle, of which I was first’ obliged to swallow three myself, to show the little fellow how; and at last, by dipping them in honey, I did get him to gulp a Couple, when, to my great joy, the obstruction was removed, and the sheikh highly delighted. I had already acquired the name of tibeeb (doctor), but this operation raised my fame exceedingly. While I was waiting in the palace, in consequence of this accident, a punishment took place, probably only equalled in severity by that of the knout in Russia, and which, as. is often. the case in that country, caused, the death of the culprit Before the morning. In this instance the unfortunate man had been found, by the spies of the kadi (who aré always , on. the alert),: slumbering in his amours, and was now to pay the penalty of his carelessness. In the middle of the day, during the Rhamadah, he had been seen asleép in his hut,
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