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304 time, they waited for the event with considerable curiosity. Now
his knowledge of futurity had spread abroad with demonstrations of
amazement; the eclipse happened precisely at the time he had
predicted, which established his fame as an (_alem min alem_), a
man wiser than the wise.

During the latter part of his residence in West Barbary, a report
prevailed that Bonaparte was preparing an immense army to invade
and subjugate the country. Ali Bey was not only suspected to be his
secret agent, but some persons were even ridiculous enough to
declare that he was Bonaparte himself in disguise; and accordingly
he was denominated _Parte_, for they would not add _Bona_, as that
word signifies good, in the _lingua franca_ of Barbary, and
Bonaparte, they said was not good, but a devil incarnate; so they
called him Parte. Last year I met in London the Moor who had
purchased Ali Bey's slave, and he told me that his son by the
before-mentioned wife lives at Fas; that he is a very amiable and
intelligent youth, about fifteen or sixteen years of age; and that
he is very poor, and would have starved, but for the charity and
protection of the highly respected fakeer of the city of Fas, Muley
Dris, under whose roof he resides, and is indebted to him for
protection and patronage. This man would be an acquisition to the
African Association, and means might be adopted to engage him in
305 their service to explore Sudan.

_The Emperor's Attack of Diminet, in the Atlas_.

The emperor Seedi Muhamed ben Abdallah levied a powerful army, and
took the field against Diminet, in the mountains of Atlas, east of
Marocco. The people of Diminet, and the territory of Berebbers,
east of that country, had also levied a strong force to defend
themselves. The Diminets were taken by surprise; for they had not
had intimation of an attack from Marocco. The Emperor himself, with
a few attendants disguised in the Berebber dress, advanced a few
miles ahead of the army. A party of mountaineers had received
orders from their sheik, (when the latter was informed that the
Emperor's army was coming against them,) to seek the Emperor, and
endeavour to kill him. They mistook the Emperor and his party for
Berebbers, as His Majesty spoke the language correctly, and had in
the early part o