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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Tell dear Caroline the portfolio she made for me shall go with me to the world's end; and Rosamond's Tippoo Saib shall see the West Indies Gascoigne has been in the West Indies before now, and he says and proves, that temperance and spice are the best preservatives in that climate; so you need not fear for me, for you know I love pepper better than port.
This gentleman was a total stranger to the situation of my finances, and one that I had, by mere accident, met at an ordinary in Paris." Ledyard observes, that he had no more idea of receiving money from this gentleman than from Tippoo Saib. "However," he says, "I took it without any hesitation, and told him, I would be as complaisant to him if ever occasion offered."
Determined not to abandon the pursuit while a chance remained, we followed the redoubtable Serib Saib for eighty miles up the river, which in some parts was too narrow for our boats' crews to make use of their oars; but all obstacles were overcome in the ardour of the chase.
So there he stood mute and still, like a thing cut in stone. Some time he had stood thus when there was seen far off a dense cloud like dust. "They come! they come!" said the white men. "More blacks are on us! To the ship! to the ship!" Saib knew not what was said or done, and if he had heard, there would have been no help for him.
They were opposed by Ali Saib Pasha and two or three subordinate generals. On the north, at Krstaz, was Vucotich, the father-in-law of the Prince, a brave man, but neither a good general nor a good administrator, and to his incompetence as strategist the Montenegrins were indebted for the egregious failure of the northern defense.
Saib is now more than twelve years old; he has learnt to read, to write, to speak the truth, to try to be calm when rude boys tease him, and to feel grief when he has done wrong. To love his kind friends he has not to learn his heart bids him do that. He feels all that Mrs. Bright has done for him he hopes he may not grieve her or Mr. Bright, but that he may be to them as a good son.
This favourite idea still occupied his mind a fortnight before his departure for Syria was determined on, and on the 25th of January 1799 he wrote to Tippoo Saib as follows: You are of course already informed, of my arrival on the banks of the Red Sea, with a numerous and invincible army.
In this situation, he formed a conspiracy against his kinsman's life, with Nazirzing's prime minister, and the nabobs of Cadupab and Condaneor, then in his camp; and the conspirators were encouraged in their scheme by Dupleix and Chunda Saib, who had retired to Pondicherry. Thus stimulated, they murdered Nazirzing in his camp, and proclaimed Muzapherzing viceroy of Decan.
What was the joy of poor Saib when told he should be free! what was the joy of poor Saib when he found how much thought and care Mr. and Mrs. Bright had for him! They took Saib with them to their own home, and had him taught all things that could be of use to him in the new state in which he now was.
On and on they went, till the step of Boa was not so firm as it had been; it was less firm each time she put her foot to the ground. "I can walk no more," she said at last; and quite faint and worn out, she lay down on the ground. Poor Saib! he all at once thought of their lorn state, and of how far they were from their home and from help.
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