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could not let us have more than from fifteen to twenty casks of good 
water per day, as it came from the country ; that yesterday the 
Vizier had taken the water, as he did not know we wanted so much. 
This is probably true, for when the British fleet was here the water 
they procured was very bad, and ours is excellent, which could 
only be owing to the quantity then required being greater than 
the actual supply ; they therefore took it from the brackish wells. 
He informed me that a boat was come in with fire wood, and that he 
would order the whole along side for us to-morrow morning. The 
camel's flesh went down very well, and we had a plentiful supply 
of very fine fish. The market yielded dried figs and nuts, which 
the monkeys liked as well as we did. We also procured a supply 
of excellent Egyptian dol. Jelani gave us fine bread ; and we bought 
enough for our men of a coarser sort. 
December 19.— In the morning, to our great surprise, the Emir 
Bahar came on board : it turned out that his only business was to 
request some flints for the Vizier. I gave him fifty, which were 
two thirds of what I had left. We had got all our rice, and had we 
been worth another anchor, should have been once again in a very 
comfortable situation. The winds were steady to the north, but 
Ramadan moon ending the next night, a change seemed approach- 
ing. In the morning it blew fresh from the east. It changed at noon 
to N. E. We rode by an anchor made of two guns and our chain, 
perfectly safe. 
December ^3.— On the 22d in the evening the new moon was 
visible, and was saluted by all the guns of the town. We received 
an invitation from Jelani to feast with him at ten, on the ^4th, 
which we accepted. The Wahabee had kept the town in an alarm 
