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a deserter from the Lancaster, Sir Roger Curtis. Another of the 
Company's apprentices escaped, as I learned, on board the 
American. The Captain of which said, very properly, that he be- 
lieved he was there, but without his knowledge or consent, 
and that he wished the Antelope's people would find him. They 
searched the ship, but without success. She sailed on the 4th of 
July, and with her two of his Majesty's subjects. 
Another of the seamen, also a deserter from a King's ship, 
fled to the Dola, and became a Mussulmaun. He, and the one who 
sailed in the American, were the two that were on shore with me at 
Massowah. Mr. Hall went to see him, but was only abused. 
The heat of the weather was more oppressive than I had hitherto 
experienced ; the winds were northerly, and extremely warm, 
though the thermometer was only 92,° and 94°. I could bear no co- 
vering at night, and was so completely relaxed, that I was obliged 
to take a few glasses of wine. The swell in the road is much less 
than when the southerly winds prevail. The rains fell everyday 
to the northward, and on the mountains of the interior, but not a 
drop reached Mocha. We obtained grapes, which were tolerable, 
and some very indifferent figs and peaches. 
Since my arrival here my suspicions at Massowah have been 
fully confirmed. The masters of the dow,on being interrogated by 
Mr. Pringle, declared that Abdulcauder was sent to them by the 
Captain to advise them not to procure a pilot, to represent that if 
they did not, I should be obliged to go back to Mocha, and that they 
would get their four hundred dollars for nothing ; on the contrary, 
if they went on, they would not only have to pay one hundred for 
a pilot, but would incur the danger and expense of a long voyage 
