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rotten sticks, which assisted the mats in forming 

 the wall of our lower apartment. 



Besides Nassah and a young man named Ab- 

 dullah, a native of Mocha, who officiated as cook, 

 we had another attendant, a slave who had been 

 lent to us by Shurmalkee, on account of his ac- 

 quaintance with the Arabic and Dankalli lan- 

 guages, and who was of considerable use to us as 

 our private interpreter. 



Whilst we staid in Tajourah, our daily occupa- 

 tions were not of a very varied character, yet still 

 they were such that did not fatigue us with their 

 sameness. Every morning at sunrise, attended by 

 Nassah, we strolled down to the beach, and 

 indulged ourselves in the health-giving bath. 

 Towards evening, accompanied by some of the 

 chief men of the town, we amused ourselves and 

 astonished them by our dexterity with the rifle. 

 The Tajourah people themselves only boasted the 

 possession of a solitary matchlock, and the daring 

 proprietor of this not unfrequently joined us, trying 

 his piece with a new silver mounted one which we 

 had brought with us as a present from Capt. Haines 

 to Izaak, but as no inducement could prevail 

 either upon him or his son to discharge it, Nassah 

 was always called upon to relieve these gentlemen 

 from the danger and honour of firing. 



The features of our orderly Nassah were a good 

 specimen of those which characterize a numerous 

 class of Arabs, living on the sea coast of Arabia, 



