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The Elephants of our Forreſt have every Year killed us a great many Slaves whom we ſent to ſeek Ivory. For all the Cautions we could give them, thoſe crafty Animals killed them one time or other. God has delivered you from their Fury, and has beſtowed that Favour upon you only. It’s a Sign that he loves you, and has uſe for your Service in the World. You have procured me incredible Gain. We could not have Ivory formerly, but by expoſing the Lives of our Slaves; and now our whole City is enriched by your Means. Don’t think I have pretended to have rewarded you by giving you your Liberty, I will alſo give you conſiderable Riches. I could engage all our City to contribute towards making your Fortune, but I will have the Glory of doing it alone.

To this obliging Diſcourſe I replied, Patron, God preſerve you. Your giving me my Liberty is enough to diſcharge what you owe me, and I deſire no other Reward for the Service I have had the good Fortune to do to you and your City, but leave to return to my own Country. Very well, ſays he, the Mocon[1] will in a little time bring Ships for Ivory. I will ſend you home then, and give you wherewith to bear your Charge. I thank’d him again for my Liberty, and his good Intentions toward me. I ſtaid with him expecting the Mocon, and during that time, we made ſo many Journeys to the Hill, that we filled all our Warehouſes with Ivory. The other Merchants who traded in it, did the ſame thing, for it could not be long concealed from them.

At theſe Words Scheherazade, perceiving Day, broke off, but reſumed the Story next Night.


The Nintieth Night.


SIR, ſays ſhe to the Sultan of the Indies. Sindbad went on with the Relation of his Seventh Voyage thus.

The Ships arrived at laſt, and my Patron him ſelf having made choice of the Ship wherein I was to embark, he loaded half of it with Ivory on my Account, he laid in Proviſions in abundance for my Paſſage, and befides obliged me to accept a preſent of the Curiolities of the Country of

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  1. ↑ A regular Wind that comes ſix Months from the Eaſt, and as many from the Weſt.
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