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agreed to take Captain Court's bills on Mocha for the whole amount 
of our expenses, without charging any interest or exchange. 
I gave him letters of recommendation to the Governor-General 
of India, and the Governor of Bombay, and also left with him a 
certificate of the liberal treatment we had received from him. I 
asked him if he wished them to be delivered in private, but he 
preferred receiving them in the presence of the crowd of merchants, 
who were assembled to consult about the purchase of Captain Loane*s 
cargo. I parted from him with expressions of regard, and returned 
to the Panther under the usual salute. 
A dow caught fire in the evening and was burnt to the water's 
edge, in defiance of the active exertions of the Emir Bahar and his 
people. One unfortunate man was blown in two, by the bursting 
of a powder tub, and a second had his legs and thighs dreadfully 
shattered ; in this state he was sent off to Mr. Macgie by the Vizier, 
with a request that he would do any thing for him that he could, 
and even, if necessary, cut off his legs : a very extraordinary per- 
mission from a Mussulmaun, as, in general, the idea of amputation 
is abhorred, and its being done by a Christian would be considered 
as an aggravation of the injury. His case was however hopeles;^, 
^nd therefore Mr, Macgie declined interfering. 
