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thoug-h I now possessed but few clothes of any sort, since tfie 



loss of my trunks on our passage down. 



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From this period until the 18th, I continued to receive the 

 kindest and most consoling attentions from Captain Boog, and 

 by the help of medicines and nourishing diet, daily gained 



strength. 



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My writing was entirely abandoned during this period from 

 the pain both of the head and breast which it occasioned, and it 

 was in this interval that I received the following letter from Mr. 

 Burckhardt. 



Mekke, 2d Zeelhadj, 1229. 

 My dear Sir, 



Othman Aga arrives this moment, and tells me that you are 

 at Jedda. My joy at knowing you so near is damped only by 

 the news of your illness. I should have immediately set out for 

 Jedda, to see you before the Hadj, but after to-morrow the 

 gates of Jedda will be shut, so there will be no means of con- 

 veyance between that place and Mekke, till after the Hadj. My 

 project was to go immediately after the Hadj to Medineh, but I 

 sacrifice it willingly for the pleasure of shaking hands with you, 

 and consoling you a little during your tedious stay at Jedda. You 

 may, therefore, expect me about the 14th or 15th of this month. 



None of the letters of Djeilany have yet reached me here, nor 



did Othman's letter arrive to its address: I should have saluted 



you long before this time. I am in good health, and trust you 



will soon be restored likewise, for the climate of Jedda is only 



unhealthy during the first week of the stranger's stay there. 



Believe me, my dear Sir, most sincerely your's, 



IBRAHIM. 

 I give this letter in charge to Djeilany. 



P. S. — I beg you not to mention my person too often at Jedda; 

 the Pasha might else be confirmed in his idea that 1 have tlie 

 India Company's interest as a guide in the pursuit of my travels. 

 If I see the Pusha during tlic Hadj at Arafaat or Mekke, and 

 lha:t ho mcnliftus your project to me, I shall then endeavour to 



