This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ..." When morning came, every body was employed in endeavouring to discover the murderers of the merchant; and the stranger being found so near the house, with blood upon his clothes, was immediately seized, and dragged before the tribunal of the king. The king of Zanguebar asked him why he had chosen his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 edition. Excerpt: ..." When morning came, every body was employed in endeavouring to discover the murderers of the merchant; and the stranger being found so near the house, with blood upon his clothes, was immediately seized, and dragged before the tribunal of the king. The king of Zanguebar asked him why he had chosen his capital as the scene of such an infamous murder; and desired him to acknowledge who were his accomplices, and how he had disposed of the merchant's property. The king of Yemen declared that he was innocent, and perfectly ignorant of the whole transaction: that he was of a princely family; and, having been shipwrecked, was driven on that coast, and had by accident reposed himself under the shade of that house when the murder was committed. The king of Zanguebar then inquired of him by what means his clothes had become stained with blood, and, finding that the stranger could not account for that circumstance, he ordered the officers of justice to lead him away to execution. The unfortunate king of Yemen entreated for mercy, and asserted, that his innocence would on some future day become apparent. " The king consented to defer his execution for a while; and he was sent to prison. " On one side of the prison there was an extensive plain, with a running stream, to which, every day, the prisoners were brought, that they might wash themselves; and it was the custom that once every week the king resorted to that plain, where he gave public audience to persons of all ranks. On one of those days the king of Zanguebar was on the plain, surrounded by his troops, and the prisoners were sitting by the side of the stream, along which ran a wall of the prison. It happened that Abrahah, who had been the king of Yemen's slave, was standing near this wall, ...
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