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five dollars to each man. I recollected perfectly that 

 when they were first engaged I refused to sanction 

 more than four dollars heing given, on the plea 

 that, perhaps, the expense I was incurring would be 

 objected to as unnecessary, considering that Mr. 

 Cruttenden had paid in Tajourah all the expenses 

 that we were told would be necessary upon the road. 

 Ohmed Mahomed, however, replied, that in case the 

 extra dollar should be refused, Ebin Izaakand himself 

 would each give half a dollar, and so make up the 

 •Rye dollars per man, and I had therefore always told 

 the Hy Soumaulee they would receive five dollars 

 each. When I discovered how they had been 

 cheated by Ohmed Mahomed, who had actually 

 told them that he had not received a dollar from 

 the Embassy, but that the dollar he had given 

 to each was that one promised by himself and 

 Ebin Izaak, I was only surprised they did not 

 sacrifice me at once to their resentment. I soon 

 disabused them of the deceit that had been prac- 

 tised upon them, and promised that, as the British 

 Mission would be in Ankobar in the course of two 

 days, I would go up and see the Ambassador on 

 purpose that the matter should be examined into. 



My old escort then went away very peaceably; 

 but so strict are the orders of the Negoos to 

 prevent any strangers, more especially those coming 

 from Adal, to enter the kingdom without special 

 permission, that the arrival of the Hy Soumaulee 

 in Aliu Amba created quite an alarm, lest, on 



