3S 6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER- 



horns for turning, plenty of gum Arabic, cama, myrrri^ 

 frankincenfe, and many other precious articles ; thefe were 

 all bartered, at Mafuah and Suakem, for India, goods. But 

 nothing which violence and injuftice can ruin, ever can. 

 fubfift under Turkifh government.; The Bafhas paying dear- - 

 ly for their confirmation at Conftantinople, and uncertain- 

 if they Ihould hold this office long enough to raakfe-reim- 

 burfements for the money they had already advanced, had 

 not patience to flay till the courfe of trade gradually indem- 

 nified them, .but proceeding from extortion to extortion, 

 they at lafl became downright robbers, feizing the cargo 

 of the fhips wherever they could find them, and exercifing 

 the mod mocking cruelties on the perfon. they belonged to, . 

 flaying the factors alive, and impaling thofe that remained : 

 in their hands, to obtain, by. terror, remittances from India. . 

 The trade was thus abandoned, and the revenue ceafed. . 

 There were no bidders at Constantinople for the farm, no- 

 body had trade in their heads when their lives were every - 

 hour in danger. Dahalac became therefore dependent on ■: 

 the Bafha of Jidda, and he appointed an * Aga, who paid i 

 him a moderate fum, and appropriated to himfelf the pro- - 

 villous and falary allowed for the pearTfifhery, or the great- - 

 eft part of them. 



The Aga at Suakem endeavoured, in vain, to make the 

 Arabs and people near him work without falary, fo they 

 abandoned an. employment which produced nothing but , 

 punifhment; and, in time, they grew ignorant of the iifhery.. 



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* A Subaltern Governor. . 



