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gel's arrangements, transported to Kiikawa, a very 
considerable proportion was found, on a close ex- 
amination, to have been abstracted. Being there- 
fore in Avant of money, and convinced that if such an 
outrage were allowed to pass by unnoticed no peace- 
able intercourse could ever be carried on between 
this country and Europeans, I explained these cir- 
cumstances in the first audience which I had of the 
Sheikh, to whom I made a present worth about eight 
pounds sterling. 
While therefore once more assuring him of my 
unbounded satisfaction at finding him reinstated in 
his former power, I requested him not to sufi^er me 
to be treated in this manner by thieves and rob- 
bers, and to exert his influence for the restoration of 
my property. This proceeding of mine, as respon- 
sible to the government under whose auspices I 
was travelling, involved me in a series of difiicul- 
ties, and excited against me Diggama, one of the 
most influential courtiers at the time, and a man 
of mean character, as it was his servant, or more 
probably himself, who had obtained possession of the 
greater part of the plunder. In order to counteract 
the intrigues of this man I endeavoured to secure 
the friendship of Yusuf, the Sheikh's next eldest 
brother, an intelligent and straightforward man, by 
making him a handsome present and explaining to 
him, in unequivocal terms, how a friendly inter- 
course between themselves and the English could 
only exist if they acted in a conscientious manner. 
