m y turban, (fays he to Fidele) do you call me a liar?” Fid.
“ I did not cay you a liar, only that Chriftian lied.” I/m. “ I
fay, that every -word he fpoke is truth, or I am no true believer.
Was not your fword drawn, and your fcabbard lyin
g on the floor, when I entered the room ? Was there any
one prefent but him and you? Whom did you draw your
fword upon ?” '“ Pure merriment for a little amufement,
fays Fidele, turning to the Moullah, I was diverting myfelf
w ith the Chriftian, w ho came to give me medicines.” “ The
diverfion, I fancy, -was over on your part, fays Solimán, my
sfervant, when you threw away your fword, after drawing it,
■and called upon a ll your fervants for afliftance. Were not
your women at the door upon my entering if?” Fid. “ Would
-you have had me Ihot in my own houfe by an infidel ?
Did he not prefent a piftol at me ?” Ifm. “ L ord ! Lord ! he
was only diverting himfelf, too? Did not you fee that? You
Ihould have gone on with your merriment:— What ftop't
y o u ?” “ Look you, Shekh, faid I, your inward thoughts aré
feen by me. Did not you fend two meffengérs to Shekh
Ibrahim in Atbara that very night, within theíé twelve
.hours, defiring him to take me by force, while afleep, to
•heal his wounded men? Was this amufement, too ? Beware
in time, for every thought in your heart is known to me as
¡foon as it is formed.”
T h e IherrifFe muttered to himfelf, “ Hakim y’Eref he
is a learned man ; he knows thefe things.” “ Shekh Ibrah
im is returned to Sennaar, fays the Moullah, that is the
jreafon w h y he ihould make hafte, and all this that has
•pafíed is very improper. I f a man diverts himfelf with
'drawn fwords, is he not. likely, when angry, to k ill? this
■ought not to be i lend the man away ¡ y o u can get camels
from
ftfom the Jehaina. Men like him have no money. • There
are many o f them, at.all times and places, wandering over
the fate o f the earth, and w ill be fo till Hagiuge Magiuge *’
eome; theyareDerviih.es, ftudy the herbs and the water,
andcure difeafes.” “ God blefs the. truth !:faid I ;..there it
i6. I: am a Derviih, a poor, but an innocent man.” The
Moullah feemed to take credit to himfelf for all this learning.
“ I faw, fays the flierriffe, a number o f hiss countrymen
in large ihips from the Indies, when I.was at Jidda
they are called Inglefe.” “ T h e y are brave men, fays If-
mael, and came firft from Turkey. Their country is called
Caz Dangli to this day. - I 'h a v e - feen it, and am fure no
man would hurt Yagoube that knew him.” Fid. “ So, Yagoube
is his . n ame ; the firft - time I k n ew it ” Moul. “ Yar
goube el Hakim ; now I remember it p e r fe& ly Ali Tche- •
lebi, Mahomet Abou Calec’s facftor, is ill ofian enchantment
from an enemy ; his bowels are out o t e r d e r ; he it was -
that aiked me i f fueh a man was yet come to Beyla. They
furely expeft: that you Ihould forward him to Sennaar.
T r u e , Yagoube el Hakim, that was his name.” Fid. “ He
fliall go next week, fince it is fo, i f I -can but get camels.”
Upon this-we rofe, feeing other people coming in. When
Lstook hold o f . the Shekh'« hand at go in g away, he aikedi
me, in apparent -good humour, “ Well, Yagoube, are we
friends now?” I anfwered him, in the moft complacent:
tone o f voice poflible, “ Sir, I never was your en em y ; fo -
for'otherwife, that my only anxiety now is, left your behaviour
may b r in g , upon you powerful adverfaries,. before
■whom y o u are not .able to ftand- The.ilL-ulage I have m e t4
w ith .
* this they mean Gogjmd M agog. W e lhall after. fee.their belief cooGcroing^theima