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to Hadjee Alii that he was indifferent to the threats of the Nayib, 
being a son of the hills, and having people enough to secure 
him against any attack." Hadjee Alii, however, had been too 
much alarmed to rely on this security, and therefore had abso- 
lutely refused to attempt the journey a second time. It appeared 
from further inquiries that a, quarrel had existed between him and 
Yunus's sons ; each accusing the other of the failure of the busi- 
ness on which they had been dispatched. As the blame appeared 
to me to rest with Hadjee, I immediately discharged him, and he 
returned by the first conveyance to Mocha. 
On the 13th I dispatched a Jetter in Arabic to Alii Goveta, 
who was then at Ar6na, one of the chief residences of his tribe, lying 
at the bottom of the Bay of Howakil, three days journey by land 
distant from Madir. In this letter I expressed my desire to see 
him immediately, that we might confer on the subject of my 
journey into Abyssinia, and I inclosed two letters for him to for- 
ward to the Has and Mr. Pearce, written in English, for the 
purpose of preventing any unpleasant consequences should they 
by chance fall into the hands of the Nayib. 
This dispatch to AUi Goveta w as rendered in some degree un- 
necessary by the arrival on the 14th of a young chieftain, named 
Alii Manda,* who proved to be a nephew of Alii Goveta, holding 
the command of a district on the mountains, over which the road 
lies to Al3yssinia. He was a young man who possessed a strong 
and lively expression in his countenance, and was dressed in a 
* I found on subsequent inquiry, that the name of ^ AUi' was a title given to most of the 
chiefs on this coast j expressing the same thing as ' Ayto' in the Abyssinian, ' Sydee* in 
Arabic, and ' Sir' or ' Mr.' in the English language. 
