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the English. I explained to him, that we certainly 
had this treaty ready for him, and intended to 
have presented it to him on our arrival; but on 
account of our sufferings and the robberies com- 
mitted on us, and seeing the country in a state 
of revohition, I had no heart to present to his 
highness anything from the Queen of England. 
However, now that things were more settled, and 
as I saw there was authority in the country, I 
had much pleasure in proposing for his signature 
a treaty from my Government/' At the same 
moment, as an incentive, I presented the sword (a 
small naval officer's sword, with a good deal of 
polished brass and gilding about it, of the value, at 
most, of five pounds). To my great satisfaction, 
his highness accepted both treaty and present with 
ardent manifestations of pleasure. He made me 
read the document in English, to hear the sound of 
our language; and he also desired me to leave with 
him an English copy. This we did, with some ex- 
planation of the contents in an Arabic letter on the 
back. We then took our copy in Arabic. The 
sword pleased him greatly, on account of its light- 
ness, for he is an old man, not very strong; and 
because it glittered with gold. We wrote the 
maker's name in Arabic, and gave directions to 
have it well preserved. He inquired after Drs. 
Bartii and Overweg, and seemed to take great 
interest in our welfare. 
In the midst of our conversation a lady, one of 
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