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fiſting of above ſixteen hundred ſouls, were obliged to leave their native country. Neither the Emperor nor the Sultan would give them protedtion, not only becauſe they were rebels, but alſo through fear of diſpleaſing their Neighbour, the Maſſay. In this diſtreſsful ſituation, they had no other reſource than to repair to the uncultivated parts round the Upas, andrequeſted permiſſion of the Em- peror to ſettle there. Their requeſt was granted, on con- dition of their fixing their abode not more than twelve or fourteen miles from the tree, in order not to deprive the inhabitants already ſettled there at a greater diſtance of their cultivated lands. Wirth this they were obliged to comply; but the conſequence was, that in leſs than two months their number was reduced to about three hun- dred. The chieß of thoſe who remained returned to the Maſſay, informed him of their loßes, and intreated his pardon, which induced him to receive them again as[ub- Jets, thinking them ſufiiciently puniſhed for their miſ- condudt. 1 have ſeen and converſed with ſeveral of thoſe who ſurvived ſoon after their return. They all had the appearance of perſons tainted with an infectious diſorder; hey looked pale and weak, and from the account which they gave of the loſs of their comrades, and of the ſymp- toms and circumſtances which attended their diflolution, ſuch as convulſions, and other ſigns of a violent death, 1

was fully convinced that they fell vietims to the poilon,