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oned * the moll barbarous of any upon the Red Sea, and 

 the janhTaries keep pace with them, in every kind of malice 

 and violence. We did not go afhore all that day, becaufe 

 we had heard a number of fhots, and had received intelli- 

 gence from fhore, that the janhTaries and town's people, 

 for a week, had been fighting together ; I was very unwil- 

 ling to interfere, wifhing that they might have all leifure 

 to extirpate one another, if poflible ; and jny Rais feemed 

 mod heartily to join me in my wijhes. 



In the evening, the captain of the port came on board, 

 and brought two janhTaries with him, whom, with fome dif- 

 ficulty, I fuffered to enter the vefifel. Their firft demand 

 was gun-powder, which I pofitively refufed. I then afked 

 them how many were killed in the eight days they had 

 been engaged ? They anfwered, with fome indifference, not 

 many, about a hundred every day, or a few lefs or more, 

 chiefly Arabs. We heard afterwards, when we came on 

 fhore, one only had been wounded, and that a foldier, by a 

 fall from his horfe. They infilled upon bringing the vef- 

 fel into the port ; but I told them, on the contrary, that ha- 

 ving no bufinefs at Yambo, and being by no means under 

 the guns of their callle, I was at liberty to put to fea with- 

 out coming afhore at all ; therefore, if they did not leave us, 

 as the wind was favourable, I would fail, and, by force, carry 

 them to Jidda. The janhTaries began to talk, as their cullomis, 

 in a very blullering and warlike tone ; but I, who knew my 

 interell at Jidda, and the force in my own hand ; that my 



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* Vide Irvine's letters* 



