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communicate it to me. Mr. Salt and my servant caught some very 
beautiful small fish ; they also procured a few shells. 
The Captain was again sent for by the Nayib in the evening, 
who wished him to pay one pilot, and the Naqueda the other, but 
nothing definitive was settled. I had a most extraordinary answer 
from the Captain at night, stating, that there had been much 
delay by taking this passage, that we should not be able to reach 
Suez, and most probably not even Tor; and notifying to me that 
the Antelope must leave the Red Sea by the middle of August, in 
order to save her passage for the season. The pilot informed Hyder, 
that the Captain's interpreter had been talking with him, and telling 
him that if he went with us^ he would be starved, for there was no 
rice on board. 
June 9. — Before breakfast I wrote a reply to Captain Keys, 
stating that I considered his letter as a declaration, that he would 
not obey the Governor General's orders, and requiring that he 
would communicate to me his instructions from the Bombay Go- 
vernment, and give me a definitive answer in regard to his in- 
tentions of obeyiiig the Governor General, with respect to my 
future vovage. 
About four o'clock my landlord came to roe from the Nayib, to say 
that the pilots were ready to go to Suakin, as I and the Captain had 
desired. That the Captain had been with him and refused to give 
two hundred dollars, (which the pilots asked, and the Nayib de- 
sired they might receive,) saying he would give but one hundred 
and sixty, and that if the Nayib did not make them accept this 
offer, that he would go back immediately to Bombay. The Nayib 
desired him to express to me, that the Captain, neither last night 
