faith is fuffered to ride on in Cairo. The beaft had not a
ligh t load, but was ftrong enough. The difficulty was, his
having no faddle, and there were no ftirrups, fo that my
feet would have touched the ground had I not held them
up, which I did with the utmoft pain and difficulty, as they
were all inflamed,and fore, and fu ll o f holes from the inflammation
in the defect. Nobody can ever know, from a more
particular defcription, the hundredth part o f the pain I fuffered
that night. I was happy that it was all external. I
had hardened m y heart; it was ftrong, vigorous, and whole,
from the near profpeft I had o f leaving this fnoft accurfed
'country, and being again reftored to the co n v en tio n o f
.men.
T h e mule on which the Sarach rode went at a very brilk
j ia c e ; my animal did he r beft, but ihe could not keep up
with the mule. Each man o f the foldiers, befides the reft
o f his arms, had a quarter-ftaff like a watchman’s pole, a-
bom nine feet long, with which everyone in his turn laid
heartily on the afs to make her keep up with the Sara.ch’s
mule. I had every reafon to fympathize with the beaft for
the feverity o f th e blows, o f which I was a perfedt judg e
as Whether through malice or heedleffiiefs, every fourth
ftroke landed- upon my back or haunches, fo that my flelh
was difcoloured for more .than two months afterwards.
Speaking was in v a in ; you might as. well have cried to the
■ wind not.to blow, few people w alk in the ftreets o f Cairo
at n ig h t ; fome we did meet who made us way, only obfer-
ying to each other, when we palled, that I was fome thief
the Janizary A ga had apprehended. In this m o l difagree-
abje maimer, I had rode near three miles, when I arrived at
1 th e
tjjp Bey’j pa}ace, There all was light and all was buftle, as
had been noon-day. I a lig h te d w ith great difficulty
frpm j m y . difcopfplatje afs, hut with much greater pleafure
than ever I mounted the fineft horfe in the world. None of
the'people therg knew what I came for, but .thought I was
fome Arab from the country. A t laft I fqw a popht who
had been a fervant o f Ali Bey. I told him who I was, and
he immediately knew me; but had not heard that I was arrived,
and ftill lefs that I was .lent fp r ; but he went in tq
theiBey’fTscSf^Ty, who ordered my ijmnediate admiffion.
In the mean time, my Sarach and co mpany, who hadufed
me fo tenderly, came round me, deiiring the Bagfiih, or
Uipnpy.tQ .drink. “ Lppk yop, friend, laid I, your mafter
knows me well, 3-nd ypufhall,£ee what is the Bacfilh h e w ill
givg you.” ;Aptupiben p f Turks Handing by aiked, What
did b e d p i? y °h f Did he ufe you ill ? T ell the Bey, and he
w ill do fpr h im.” My friend feemed to be fsnfible he was in a
ffnape, and, though the order o f the Bey came for my
b e in g- admitted, bfi would not allow me tq pafs, but put
2 l§ §& f§ againft the $P9r till I pfomifed to fa y nothing to
the bey- ,
i .1 wits, introduced to Mahomet, Bey Abou Dahab. He was
fpmin.law to Ali Bey my friend, whom he had betrayed,
and forced to fly into Syria, where he ftill was at the head
o f a fmall army. He had been prefent with him the day
1 had my laft audience, when he was plainly drefled as a
foldier. A large fofa, or rather two large fofa.s furnilhed with
quftuqus, took up a great part o f a fpacious falooh. They
wer'e.pfthe richeft crimfon.and gold, excepting a fmall iyel-
lowand gold one like a pillow^ upon which he was leaning,
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