638 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
P. S. “I fend-you a copy of the firman ; alfo letters for the 
governors of Bombay and Bengal, inclofing the fame; 
“you will fee the tranflator be a perfon of truft, and have’. > 
no intereft in deceiving you. If I did not think you very 
fafe at Suez I would not write you. You.are to bring no 
coffee, or any produce of Arabia, at-leaft the firft voyage, 
till you make your terms here, Linclofe you a letter from 
the chief of the cuftomhoufe, | 
J. Bites 
Copy of Inftructions from the Managers of the Suez Adven- 
venture, to Mr Joun Suaw, and Captain WILLIAM Greic. 
“* GENTLEMEN, 
HE proprietors of the Suez Adventure having made 
choice of you to conduct the undertaking, it 1s our 
duty as managers to give you the necefflary inftructions. 
Inclofed you will receive invoice ard bills of loading of 
the cargo, and likewife of the freight loading on the Bengal 
Merchant, on account and rifk of the concerned, which you 
are to difpofe of in the gulf of Mocha, Jidda, or Suez, on 
the moft advantageous terms, obferving at the fame time, 
as nearly as poffible, the following inftructions : 
“ As many unforefeen accidents may happen that we 
cannot guard againft, and as the proprietors have placed in 
us an implicit confidence, we now delegate to you, Gentle- 
men, full power_and authority to conduct and manage 
this new undertaking, for which your credit, as, well 
I as 
