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my non-compliance, I made the messenger, Abba Yusuph, a 
present of twenty dollars. 
On the 23d, the Ras's people left the coast and proceeded to 
Arkeeko, and on the same day, at eight o'clock in the niorning, 
after having parted with Captain Weatherhead, I took leave of 
the Marian under a salute, and proceeded on shore, to pay my 
farewell visit to the Kaimakan. He received me at the public 
Divan, a circumstance of which I endeavoured to avail myself, in 
the hope of escaping all further notice of the letter he had sent 
me on the preceding evening. He was not however to be so eluded, 
for he openly asked if I had considered its contents. I answered, 
fully ; and as I had already exceeded my orders in making him 
presents, it was impossible for me to comply with his request:'* 
after he had ascertained, by a few additional questions, that I 
was in earnest, he desisted, and said, very good humouredly, " it is 
well, let it not alter our friendship ?" From the Kaimakan's 
house, I went for the first time to pay a visit to the Nayib, at 
which he was evidently much pleased, as it w as a cf)mpliment he 
did not expect ; and agreeably to my request he consented to 
depart immediately for Arkeeko. 
A few hours carried ns down to this dreadful place, where we 
encountered a second series of plagues, which rendered the annoy- 
ance we had suffered on the two preceding days comparatively 
trifling, when put in competition with what we had nowto endure. 
At Arkeeko the Nayib continued in full power, the Kaimakan hav- 
ing only a deputy there, called the Kiya, who possessed as little 
influence as the Nayib when residing at Massowa. It now re- 
mained for me to satisfy the Nayib,his two brothers, his sons, the 
