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a pair of pistols, and several bottles ofliqueurs, and
there was not one of my little moveables which he
did not express a desire to have. He boasted greatly
to me of the pains which his friend, the Turkish
merchant, was taking to expedite my journey, and
he made me promise to acknowledge services so
important. I sent accordingly to the latter another
valuable telescope; but he refused it, giving me to
.understand that as he was not the captain of a ship,
a telescope would be useless to him, but that he
would very willingly accept money instead of it.
He had already taken but too much from me.
if
Sometimes he asked it to secure the hire of the
camels which were to carry me, sometimes to make
an advance to the guide of the caravan; at another
time his exertions required a salary; at length he
had choused me out of five and twenty chequinsin
one way and another, without the slightest appear-
ance of any further preparation to proceed. A ca-
ravan was preparing, they told me, to set oft"; some
Arabians dispersed throughout the desert which it
was obliged to cross, had retarded its departure; a
few days after there was no caravan; and some fleet
camels were to convey me very speedily to the flat
shore of the Red Sea. But it was requisite, ac-
cording to this new arrangement, that I should
leave my baggage with the Turkish merchant,
who was to forward it to me by a future caravan.
The
a pair of pistols, and several bottles ofliqueurs, and
there was not one of my little moveables which he
did not express a desire to have. He boasted greatly
to me of the pains which his friend, the Turkish
merchant, was taking to expedite my journey, and
he made me promise to acknowledge services so
important. I sent accordingly to the latter another
valuable telescope; but he refused it, giving me to
.understand that as he was not the captain of a ship,
a telescope would be useless to him, but that he
would very willingly accept money instead of it.
He had already taken but too much from me.
if
Sometimes he asked it to secure the hire of the
camels which were to carry me, sometimes to make
an advance to the guide of the caravan; at another
time his exertions required a salary; at length he
had choused me out of five and twenty chequinsin
one way and another, without the slightest appear-
ance of any further preparation to proceed. A ca-
ravan was preparing, they told me, to set oft"; some
Arabians dispersed throughout the desert which it
was obliged to cross, had retarded its departure; a
few days after there was no caravan; and some fleet
camels were to convey me very speedily to the flat
shore of the Red Sea. But it was requisite, ac-
cording to this new arrangement, that I should
leave my baggage with the Turkish merchant,
who was to forward it to me by a future caravan.
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