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in the morning, having anchored, for the night 

 before, inside a reef I sent for the doctor, Achmet 

 Effendi, who came to see me. He was a very intelh- 

 gent and clever young man, and he spoke French 

 very well, having been seven years in Paris studying 

 his profession. Ali Effendi, the agent of the steamship 

 company, came off to see me ; he is a great friend of 

 A.'s, and seemed a capital good fellow. I gave them 

 all a little dinner in the evening. The table was 

 laid on the forecastle, and was lighted up with about 

 twenty little lamps, which Ali Effendi kindly pro- 

 vided. Our party consisted of Ali Effendi, the com- 

 pany's agent; Achmet Effendi, the young doctor; 

 Mustapha, the captain of the ship ; Hassain, the 

 second officer ; the French captain ; Mr. Cordock, the 

 engineer ; and myself. Dinner went off capitally, and 

 our party all seemed to enjoy themselves very much. 

 They drank all the coffee in the ship that was 

 ready ground, and ate a large quantity of sweet 

 things. I sent into the town of Souakim to try and 

 get a minstrel to enliven us, but the musical instru- 

 ment on which he played was broken, the minstrel 

 was asleep, and the ship's stoker, a Copt, whom I had 

 sent to fetch him, came back quite drunk. After my 

 unsuccessful attempt to entertain the company I 

 went to bed, and I believe the party still went on 

 drinkincf coffee and smoking ciijars ad libituui. We 



