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give him a satisfactory explanation of it ; but the strange situa- 

 tion in which I am placed with respect to the Pasha, forbids my 

 opening the discourse with your projects; it also might very 

 likely defeat mine. Never mention the idea of sailing strait from 

 Mokha to Suez to any man at Jedda, it would put all the 

 Djeilanys on their guard. 



I shall certainly shake hands with you at Jedda, but my stay 

 with you, I am afraid, can only be for a few days. 



Excuse my bad hand, style, and paper. 



Giovanni Bosari the Pasha's Physician, to whom you have 

 written, reads Italian with great pains, and certainly is not able 

 to understand the true meaning of any phrase above the vulgar 

 cant of letter style. 



Jedda, Tuesday, November 29. 



The present was a day commenced in anxious expectation, 

 and terminated in unusual pleasure. The boat had been sent on 

 shore early in the morning to wait for my friend Ibrahim, and he 

 had been faithful to his promise, having left Mecca immediately 

 on the termination of the Hadj, and arrived here in the course of 

 the day. He came off to us after sun-set, and our joy at meet- 

 ing was extreme. For my own part, I felt on the occasion, what 

 I had often felt before on similar ones, a total incapacity to ex- 

 press the happiness which this interview occasioned me, and on 

 his the same effect was visible; those fetters were, however, 

 gradually loosened, and our mutual sensations found a clearer 

 and a warmer utterance, when the shock of joy at meeting had 

 subsided into calm. 



Nothing was more natural than that our conversation should 

 be made up of anxious inquiries after the incidents which had 

 severally befallen us since our parting at Esneh, in Upper Egypt, 

 He had performed a perilous and fatiguing voyage, and the 

 changes and novelties I had seen, though less hazardous in their 

 attainment, were scarcely less various, or less interesting to us 

 both, than his own. 



