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tions that have occurred there subsequently to my last visit ; as 
also several letters in the Ethiopic language from the Ras Welled 
Selasse, Dofter Esther, and other well informed persons, noticed 
in the progn ss of my travels ; which altogether, 1 conceive, might 
form a compilation worthy the attention of the public. 
I shall now proceed to give a short account of my return to 
England, with which this volume will conclude. 
On the 27th of June, (sea reckoning,) the Captain having com- 
pleted his cargo, we took leave of our friends at the Factory, 
and went on board the Marian, and on the same day set sail 
from the Roads of Mocha, with the intention of making a wind- 
ward passage against the south-west monsoon to the Cape of Good 
Hope, where it had been previously arranged that the ship should 
touch on her way back to England. Owing to the wind blow- 
ing from the south south-west quarter, it took us three days to 
clear the Straits of Babelmandeb, soon after which we experienced 
a considerabk change both in the wind and weather, the former 
veering to the north-east, and the latter proving squally and un- 
settled. On the 1st of July, having advanced to the eastward of 
Aden, we experienc'ed such heavy gales from the sooth-west, in 
latitude 12° 5' 0", that the Captain thought it advisable to wear 
ship to the westward, the sea running very cross, and the vessel^ 
from pitching heavily, having shipped more water than usual. 
On the foll^iwing day, as we advanced westward, the wind again 
moderated, and at six P. M. it became almost calm. This induced 
us to steer back SE. by E. under a supposition that the gale had 
subsided ; but in a few hours we came again within the 
Influence of the north-west wind, which increased during th@ 
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