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near a plantation of date-trees, and one of our
mendicant pilgrims was dispatched with money
to purchase bread and dates for our sustenance,
with instructions to conceal, if possible, our
numbers and our halting-place, fearing that
the inhabitants might assail us with stones if
it were suspected that we came from the in-
fected city. The quantity of food, however,
required for so large a party excited suspicion,
but our preservation was again secured by
Divine interference.

A Dirzy from the city visited our resting-
place, and finding we were pilgrims, asked
permission to travel with us to Kraabaallah,
which was readily agreed to, and when a host
of men were observed issuing from the town,
this man, who was an inhabitant ran towards
them, explained that we were all healthy men,
and interested several Arab-Syaads to come
forward and befriend me and my party, which
they readily assented to on finding that brother
Syaads were in danger. The Kauzy of the
town hearing all the particulars attending us,
came to the spot which we had selected for

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