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fortonately, there was a young man named Stuart, on board the 
Marian, who hadjomed ns at the Cape, who appeared to me well 
qualified for such an employment. I accordingly engaged him 
to undertake the enterprise, and drew op a detail of instruc- 
tions for his guidance, which has since been approved of by the 
Society in a manner highly gratifying to my feelings. 
On this occasion I addressed letters to the Sultaun of Hurrur 
and the Murd'azimaj of Efat, which were confided to Mr. Stuarf s 
care ; an Arab servant was engaged to attend him, (who spoke 
English very fluently) and they were supplied with every requisite 
for their journey out of my own store. It also happened at this 
time that Hadjee Abdelkauder himself was about to return, and 
he agreed, at my request, to take charge of the party on its way 
as far as Hurrur. The result of this expedition, and the informa- 
tion obtained in the course of it, will, for the sake of a clearer 
arrangement, be given to the reader on my return to Mocha. 
As November passed away, and we received no intelligence 
respecting the messenger sent to Abyssinia, (excepting a report 
that Yunus Baralli had been imprisoned by the Nayib) I began 
to feel extremely impatient and somewhat alarmed, till at length, 
all my preparations being completed, and the Marian waiting 
my orders, I resolved at all hazard to pass over immediately to 
the African coast, where it was my intention to enter Abyssinia 
by the way of Amphila rather than by that of Massowa. To 
this determination I was led by the decided opinion of Captain 
Rudland on its eligibility, and my own experience of the difiicul- 
ties attending the other route, which were not likely to have been 
decreased by the circumstance of a Turkish Aga being in com- 
