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sions being laid in by the inhabitants as preparatory for a siege. 
Similar precautions were taken by Captain Rudland, but on the 
31st of October all existing differences were unexpectedly put an 
end to, by accounts arriving from Sana of the death of the old 
Imaum, Ali el Mansoor. He died the 25th of October, at the 
age of eighty-five, after reigning thirty-five years ; and his son 
Achmed then came into undisputed possession of the throne, on 
which occasion he assumed the title of " Sydee Achmed Ameer 
al Mookmun ul metwokkel Allah Rubbil Ailameen 
All pretext for disobedience being by this event removed, the 
Dola returned to his allegiance, and great rejoicings were made 
on account of the accession of the new sovereign. At my 
request Captain Weatherhead fired a royal salute from the 
Marian, which was returned by an equal number of guns from 
one of the forts in the town, and during this day and the three 
following, there was a continual firing of cannon and musquetry, 
with other tokens of festivity. The inhabitants were all dressed 
out in their holiday clothes, and a gaiety spread itself though the 
town that strongly confirms the remark made by Niebuhr, que 
les Arabes d' Yemen sont plus vifs que ceux d'Hedjas et infini- 
ment plus que les Turcs which indeed in its full extent is 
perfectly true. 
A short time after this the Dola made his peace at court, and 
gradually dismissed his Abada troops, and thus with the loss I 
believe, of only one life, a rebellious commotion was terminated; 
that without much mutual forbearance, must have occasioned a 
,most serious catastrophe. 
* Vide for the history of this family, Niebuhr, Description de I'Arabie, p. l70, et seg\ 
