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to the Ras*s semcfe> who i^pok^ Ae Imgmge of the countrj. In 
four days afterwards he reached Senafe, and descended into the 
plains of Assadurwa. 
At this place Mr. Pearce first met Alii Manda, who inform* 
ed him, that no vessel had arrived on the coast except Yunns's 
dow, which was waiting at Amphila. The Ras's people, dis- 
heartened by this intelligence, returned back, and, on their 
leaving him, Mr. Pearce divided with them the small stock of 
dollars which the Ras had given him for his journey. At the 
same time, Shum Ishmaiel, a friend of the Ras, commanding the 
district, allowed him an escort of the natives, under his brother 
Maimuda, with orders that they should accompany him to Madir, 
and there wait his return. After five days journey through the 
country of the Arata and Belessua, Mr. Pearce arrived safely at 
the coast, near Hurtoo, and thence passing by Arena proceeded 
to Madir, where he was joined by Yunus Baralli, from whom 
he was exceedingly distressed to learn, that the dbw had left the 
coast, and that no direct means existed of forwarding the news of 
his arrival to Mocha. Mr. Pearce, notwithstanding, procured a 
wooden pen, and wrote on a small piece of paper, which he 
begged from a Somauli, an account of his arrival to Captain 
Rudland, with which Yunus agreed to go down to Ayth, whence 
he conceived he might more readily procure means of conveyance 
to Mocha. 
Mr. Pearce was now left in one of the most unpleasant situa- 
tions that can be imagined, being surrounded by a rough set of 
marauders, who at no time are well disposed towards the Abys- 
sinians, and having to provide for fifteen people out of the 
