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When he shook hands with us, in the moment previous to his 

 descending the ship's side, there was a feeling of sorrow and de- 

 jection in each of the party, which expressed itself silently, but 

 at the same time too plainly to be misunderstood. Captain Boog 

 had become so warmly interested in his fate, as to be already 

 bound to him by stronger ties than those of common intimacy ; 

 and for myself, it will be sufficiently explanatory of the sensa- 

 tions which passed within my own bosom to say, I felt as most 

 men feel when they are parting from their longest-tried, their 

 warmest, and their dearest friend. 



Jedda, Wednesday, December 14. 

 We were visited to-day by a Turk of Baghdad, one of the 

 passengers whom Captain Boog had brought with him from 

 Bengal as supercargo of a portion of the ship's lading, the rest^be- 

 ing under the direction of his fellow passenger, an Arab. Both 

 of them had been at Mecca during the Hadj, under the hope of 

 there selling the whole of the cargo, the vessel having been 

 freighted expressly for the grand mart of commerce open at that 

 city, during the assemblage of the pilgrims. They had, however, 

 been extremely unsuccessful, first, from not having their goods 

 upon the spot, and secondly, from a still more aggravating, be- 

 cause irremediable cause. To carry on his warfare against so 

 active an enemy as the Wahabees, who fled with rapidity on 

 their dromedaries across the deserts which separated them from 

 the Turkish army, Mahommed Ali found it necessary to mount 

 even all his infantry on camels, which with the number ne- 

 cessary for the immense quantity of baggage carried to the 

 field by every common soldier, occasioned him to want a 

 very extensive supply of these animals. Five thousand of them, 

 purchased in Syria, and assembling in Egypt just before my 

 departure from that country, had reached him by the land 

 caravan through Medina ; but these being insufficient, he had 

 detained the Pasha of Damascus, who was here on Pilgrimage 

 with about a hundred of his military attendants, and the whole 

 of the Damascus caravan, amounting to more than another five 

 thousand camels, as well as all the beasts from Baghdad, Persia, 



