6 SURVEILLANCE OF ISAAK. 



situated very near to the ruins of that once powerful 

 seat of Phoenician commerce. 



On the occasion of this visit, much opportunity 

 was not afforded me of observing the character 

 either of the country or of the people, as I 

 landed but twice, and then under the closest 

 surveillance of a brother of the Sultaun, named 

 Isaak, who professed to be greatly alarmed for 

 my safety during these visits; and although at 

 the time I deemed his attendance to proceed from 

 any but generous motives, I have since had reason 

 to believe that his representations of the danger I 

 incurred by rambling about the neighbourhood 

 without the protection of some powerful native 

 were founded upon truth, and from a desire that 

 no cause of ill-feeling between their little town and 

 the English should occur, if by any possibility it 

 could be avoided. As I before observed, three of 

 Mr. Hatchetoor's servants were murdered during 

 the night, on the last occasion of our intercourse 

 with the inhabitants ; and Isaak, though I felt his 

 presence to be a restraint upon my actions, was 

 quite right for thus persisting to accompany me on 

 even the most trifling occasions, to prevent the recur- 

 rence of what he, half savage as he was, felt to be 

 an untoward event. 



An opportunity offering itself, Capt. Young 

 introduced me to the Sultaun of Tajourah. 

 He was a man at least sixty years of age ; round 

 his closely shaven head was wrapped a dirty 



