16 RETURN TO ADEN. 



opinion as to the real character of these people, and 

 of comparing them with others, who seemed to me 

 to have one common origin, but who differ very 

 materially in the historical circumstances which 

 have marked the period of their long separation. 

 I shall, therefore, return for the present to Aden, 

 which we reached early in the morning of the 

 first of March, three days after having left Ta- 

 j our ah. 



From Back Bay, a joint report was immediately 

 forwarded to Capt. Haines by Lieut. Young and 

 Mr. Hatchetoor, announcing the return of the brig, 

 and the ill success that had attended their endea- 

 vours to forward the stores and myself to Shoa. 

 Fortunately, I was not long permitted to remain 

 at Steamer Point, off which the Euphrates was 

 anchored, for before noon of the same day we 

 arrived, I received fresh instructions from Capt. 

 Haines to embark again in the evening, and pro- 

 ceed in company with the assistant political agent, 

 C. J. Cruttenden, Esq., to Berberah, where the great 

 annual fair was then being held ; from which place 

 it was arranged a native boat should be engaged to 

 take that gentleman, his two servants, and myself 

 back to Tajourah. Capt. Haines rightly supposing 

 that some little jealousy had been excited on the 

 previous occasion by the appearance of the brig 

 before the town which might have implied that 

 compulsion would be resorted to, should the inhabit- 

 ants refuse their required assistance to communicate 



