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turned about and swam towards the land; and as he was an excellent swimmer, I made no doubt but he reached the shore with ease.
When he was gone, I turned to the boy, whom they called Xury, and said to him, “Xury, if you will bo faithful to me, I will make you a great man: but if you will not stroke your face to be true to me,” (that is, swear by Mahomet and his
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father’s beard,) “I must throw you in to the sea too.” The boy smiled in my face, and spoke so innocently, that I could not mistrust him: he sworo to be faithful to me, and go all over the world with me.
While I was in view of Muley, I stood out to sea, but it no sooner grew dark, than I changed my course, and steered to the south, I mado such sail, that before the end of the next day, I believe, I was beyond the Emperor of Morocco’s dominions. Yet so dreadful were my apprehensions of falling again into my master’s hands, that I would not stop to go on shore, till I had
