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of Suakin, has been obliged to obtain from Mocha, those supplies, 
which he formerly drew from Jidda. But the difficulties of a longer 
voyage within the prevalence of the violent monsoons, add greatly 
to the expense, which was before considerable, from the necessity 
of passing over a dreary desert for nearly six hundred miles, in 
order to reach Sennaar ; so that there can be little doubt, that the 
European and Indian goods might find their way through Abyssinia 
to the same place, incumbered with much less charge for carriage, 
as well as for prime cost. The old sources of trade being com- 
pletely annihilated, it is evident that new ones must be sought for. 
Great Britain, as producing every suitable article within her own 
dominions, and being mistress of the sea, has certainly the power 
to succeed to Egypt, in the advantage of supplying the interior of 
Africa; but I feel it a duty again to repeat, that if she do not, 
the French will ; for I know from undoubted authority, that the 
attention of the Government of the Isle of France has been already 
called to my discoveries. 
In order that the reader s attention may not be called back to 
Abyssinia, which I am now about to leave, I think it right in this 
place to lay before them the information which I have received since 
my return to England. 
On the arrival of Captain Court at Mocha, he found a letter lying 
there from Pearce, dated on the ^8th of February 1806, giving an 
account of his continuing in good health, and rapidly advancing in 
acquiring the language. He was in high favour with the Ras, who 
had placed him immediately under the protection of Ozoro Tishai, 
