They Then
Untied The Hog, In Hopes That It Would Run Immediately At Me - For
They Believe That A Great
Enmity subsists between hogs and
Christians - but in this they were disappointed, for the animal no
sooner regained his liberty
Than he began to attack indiscriminately
every person that came in his way, and at last took shelter under
the couch upon which the king was sitting. The assembly being thus
dissolved, I was conducted to the tent of Ali's chief slave, but was
not permitted to enter, nor allowed to touch anything belonging to
it. I requested something to eat, and a little boiled corn, with
salt and water, was at length sent me in a wooden bowl; and a mat
was spread upon the sand before the tent, on which I passed the
night, surrounded by the curious multitude.
At sunrise, Ali, with a few attendants, came on horseback to visit
me, and signified that he had provided a hut for me, where I would
be sheltered from the sun. I was accordingly conducted thither, and
found the hut comparatively cool and pleasant.
I was no sooner seated in this my new habitation than the Moors
assembled in crowds to behold me; but I found it rather a
troublesome levee, for I was obliged to take off one of my
stockings, and show them my foot, and even to take off my jacket and
waistcoat, to show them how my clothes were put on and off; they
were much delighted with the curious contrivance of buttons.
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