or give him drink. About h a lf a fcore o f people broke into
Adelan’s houfe in the night, with a view to rob and murder
us, but I was not at the pains to. fire at fuch wretches *
asthefe. Two or three fervants with flicks were all that
were needful. I underftand, indeed, that Shekh Adelan is
exceedingly difpleafed that I did not fire at them, and has
fent to the Gindi, ordering him to deliver two o f them to
him to-morrow to be executed publicly before the door
o f his houfe on the market-day. But this, you know, is
among yourfelves. I am very well pleafed none o f them
are dead, as they might have been, by my hands or thofe
o f m y people.” K. “ T ru e ; but Adelan is not king, and, 1
charge you when y o u ,fe e him to afk fo r Mahomet’s life,
o f a confiderable deal o f blame w ill fall upon you. When
you return back, I w ill fend him to conduct, you to the
frontiers o f Egypt.” Upon this I bowed, and took m y '
leave. I went home perfeftly determined what I was to
do. I had now obtained from the k in g an involuntary
fafe-guard till I Ihould arrive at Adelan’s, that is, I was fure
that, in hopes I might procure a.reprieve for Mahomet, no
trap would be laid for me on the road. I determined therefore
to make the beft ufe o f my time; and every thing bein
g ready, we loaded the camels, and fent them forward
that night to a fmall village called Soliman, three or four
miles from Sennaar; and having fettled my accounts with
Hagi Belal, I received back fix links, the miferable remains
o f one hundred and eighty-four, o f w hich my noble
chain once confiftedi
Thi s traitor kept me the few laft minutes to write a letter
to the Engliih at Jidda, to recommend him fo r the.fervice
vice he had done me at Sennaar; and this I complied
with, that I might inform the broker Ibrahim that I had
received no money from his correfpondent, and give him
a caution never again to truft Hagi Belal in fimilar cir-
cumftances.
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