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words can describe. The interest I felt for this young man, 
on account of his amiable character, will make me always re- 
member him with pleasure, and it is satisfactory to me to re- 
flect that I had an opportunity of strengthening the principles of 
virtue in his mind, and of promoting his future prospects with the 
Has. 
On the 6th we touched at Dahalac el Kibeer, where I renewed 
my acquaintance with the Sheik commanding that place ; on the 
8th we passed Sarbo, Morah, and Amphila, and, on the 10th, 
after experiencing regular land and sea breezes along the coast, 
stretched over to Mocha ; where we safely arrived, and shortly 
afterwards took up our residence at the British factory. 
During my stay at Massowa, in March, I had been induced 
to entertain the idea, that some remains of the ancient city of 
Adule, mentioned by Pliny, Cosmas and other writers, might be 
found at the bottom of Annesley Bay, in the neighbourhood of 
the modern town of Zulla. I had been led tp this conjecture 
from the relative situation of the bay with the Island of Ya- 
lentia, (which is undoubtedly the ancient Orine, noticed in the 
Periplus,) from the resemblance of Zulla'' (or as it is sometimes 
pronounced Thuila") to the ancient name, and from the fact of 
a column, evidently of Egyptian workmanship and lying at the 
landing place opposite Massowa, having been brought, accord- 
ing to the accounts of the natives, from somewhere near the 
bottom of Annesley Bay." Hadjee Haraed, who had attended 
me down from Dixan, had also mentioned, in answer to my en- 
quiries, that he had heard of an ancient town near Zulla, where 
€onsiderable ruins still remained of houses, tanks, and columns 
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