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there is no time to.lofe r -,n„
It has appeared to -me, ’that often,: Z c e V c 5 S ^
ney, we have been preferved bv vifihU ' n ®aa S Joui-
protection,- when we ihould have loft om y ^ f 1 God'<*
true, of,different relictions hnr o.i n. . are, it. is
Suppofe G0d’
reaUy in GodVproteriion, or whether S S S S f S f
A °wm g to .our own forefight and c o u r a g e ^ W
life be now taken awav M m« tiie
teen, andthen we ffaadl aSkgdg^- m rnf: own partj.my conftant c r e 5T ZT^ God s hands, whether in d S *r ■ am la S g S * a tTTt
and have done, nor defign, Water>
armed,arenine:innumher, and have twice as » a n v f
locks, many,of thefewith double-barrels 3 I 7
never before fe e n b v Arabs a • r ’ ^ others of.afizsi
- » Prize
a party o f pleafure for anv Per O ,.ri,t we C ^ l be found
their own homes with ravelin .1 t 0'J,le.' men, to leave
o f the queftiom But this I derU g profit « e o u t
thefe Arabs, i f the S o u n d i f 1 I ' 7° “ ’ ^ ^ We meef
wells we have.co.ne to, I. w i li f ig h t the' B i S T " f ^
and chearfully, without a donbr rS 1 • en holdly
I tlo no, fay nty feelings would be the S 2 f j £ f - " f' ‘
was loaded with .that moft.heinous and horri^crime^'tuarden.
der in cold blood; and therefore my determination is to
fpare the life even o f this man, and- w ill oppofe his being
put to death b y every means in my power.!’
i It was eafy to fee, that fear o f their own lives only, and
not cruelty, was the reafon they fought that o f the. Arab.
T h e y anfwered me, two or three o f them at once, “ T ha t
it was all very well.; what ihould they do? ihould they
give themfelves up to the Biihareen, and b e murdered like
Mahomet Towaih:? was there any other way o f efcaping ?”
“ I w ill tell you, then,fmce ^ou aik me what you ihould do:
You ihall follow the-d'uty o f felf-defence and felf-preferva-
tioh, as fa r as you >can do it without a crime. You lhall
l e a v e the women and the ch ild where they are, and with
them the camels, to give them and their child m ilk ; you
ihall chain the hufband’s right hand to the le ft o f fome o f
yours, and you ihall each o f you take him by turns till we
ihall carry h im into Egypt. Ferhaps he knows the defert
and the wells better than Idris; and i f he Ihould not, ftill we
have two Hybeers inftead o f one.; and who can foretell
what may happen to Idris more than to any other o f us ?
But as he knows the ftations -.of his people, and their cour-
fes at particular feafons, that day we meet one Biihareen,
the man that is chained -with him, and conduits him, ihall
inftantly ftab him to the heart, ib that he ihall not fee, much
lefs triumph in, the fuGcefs-of his treachery. On the contrary,
i f he is faithful, and informs Idris where the danger
is, and where we are to avoidit, keeping us rather by fcanty
wells than abundant ones, on the day I arrive fafely in Egypt
•I will cloath him anew, as alfo his women, give him a good
c am e l for liimfelf, and a load o f dora for them all. As for
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