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solicitude for the welfare of his aged mother, the austere 

 way in which he observed each recurring Sunday, the 

 pious memoirs and the ethical and theological reading sent 

 out by his fast friend, Deacon Rufus Putnam, and others, 

 in which he took delight, the hymns of praise in which 

 he lifted up his solitary voice in the wilderness, the con- 

 tagious enthusiasm with which he kept our national feasts, 

 Thanksgiving, Independence Day, and the like, inviting 

 guests of every nationality to his board, and even inspir- 

 1112: the Arab and English residents with something of his 



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own patriotic joy, his troubles in reconciling what he 

 told the Sultan of the professed beliefs of the Christian 

 world with what His Highness observed in his experience 

 with Christians, and his struggles to lead a life consis- 

 tent with these professed beliefs even to the point of de- 

 clining in one instance to receive at his house a shipmaster 

 whose conduct he stamps as "unbecoming a man." No 

 small part of his time was consumed in selling the out- 

 ward cargoes and procuring return freights for Salem craft 

 which came and went at short intervals, and in weighin 



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the ivory, turtle-shell and copal brought from the interior 

 to the coast on the backs of slave-gangs straining under 

 the lash of Arab drivers and chiefs. The entertainments 

 on board ship tendered him by foreign and American offi- 

 cers, and the courtesies extended in recognition at the 

 American consulate, are well described, 1 and his account 



cess, and tendering him every business facility if he would come to Zanzibar with 

 a cargo in which Mr. Waters could trade, added, as they shook hands, "I cannot 

 wish you a prosperous voyage for you are engaged in a business which I hate from 

 the heart." 



1 A London merchant named Hunt, who had several vessels in the Zanzibar 

 trade, and an agency there, arrived in his pleasure yacht, the brig "Sandwich," in 

 August, 1837, and in his business with the Sultan found it convenient to avail him- 

 self freely of the good offices of the American consulate. During his stay he 

 made a dinner party in honor of the Consul. had his five vessels, then in port, 

 dressed out in bunting, a salute to the Consul's flag fired from the yacht and her 

 yards manned, at his approach, -and did every thing in his power to give zest to 



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