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very unwell ; but I trusted that in a few days 

 we should be quite re-established. The poor 

 carpenter continued very unwell. Having a 

 fine milch goat on board, which supplied us 

 daily with a pint of milk^ this was a most ac- 

 ceptable treat to him. In the course of the 

 night, the king's son and a eunuch came, at 

 a very late hour, and halted and slept on a 

 sandbank opposite the Alburkah. The King 

 of Iddah sent his best respects, to inform me 

 by these two persons that the place where I 

 was then at anchor was not a very good one. 

 I was rather suspicious of his motives : I had 

 anchored at the entrance of a creek, where I had 

 some idea of remaining, — for had I gone up to Id- 

 dah, I should not have been able to leave until the 

 commencement of the rains, and I was unwilling 

 to place too much confidence in the professions 

 of Attah. I sent a present to the king in re- 

 turn, consisting of two pieces of cotton, a large 

 looking-glass, a basin of salt, and a pot of sugar. 

 1 had felt myself very unwell during the entire 

 day. 



The next day, the king again sent to say that 

 the place where I was anchored was very incon- 

 venient for trade, being at too great a distance 



