walk about the village where I pleased, and should always have my share of food.

As I had always been under serious apprehension of being deprived of my bible (which was now my only remaining companion) or that I should be compelled to engage with them in their idolatrous worship of the Supreme Being, I hinted to my interpreter, that although we believed in one and the same Grand Spirit, yet, there was a difference in our mode of worshipping Him: and that while they peaceably pursued their’s, I hoped that I should not be disturbed while engaged in mine: and what was a still greater consideration with me, I hoped that none might be permitted to take from me my bible but that I might be allowed to devote a few hours each day in perusing it. To this my master assented, on condition that I would never worship or peruse the book in his presence, or that any of his family; for as they believed Christians, fonta (bad) he could not answer for the conduct of his family if they found me thus engaged.

My master having informed me that the tent in which I was then confined, was allotted me as my place of residence until he should have an opportunity to dispose of me, now granted me liberty to walk about the village where I pleased, hinting at the same time that an attempt on my part to escape from him, would be punished with instant death! all this was interpreted to me by the old Arab, who having promised me that if he should meet with an