84 MOCHA. 
Surely Mr. Pringle might have recollected that the Imaum or his 
subjects procured the money to pay for the articles, only by the 
sale of their coffee, and that, consequently, the one trade would 
follow the other, whether to Loheia, Hodeida, or Aden. Captain 
Vashon has sent on board the Antelope, and taken out four men 
whom the officers pointed out as being suspected by them to have 
deserted from King's ships. One fellow who has turned Mussul- 
maun, broke out of the hospital, and, as it is said by himself, a man 
was killed in the affray. He however sent to me to beg a Bible. 
I complied, and thought it my duty to write to him, warning him 
of the criminality of his conduct. I received a long answer, in 
which he told me he could now be as good a Christian as before, and 
indeed that he had more time to pay his respects to God Almighty. 
The two unfortunate boys, that were left here, are recovered from 
the effects of their change, and removed into the Dola's house, 
where they are particularly well treated. They are to be put into the 
cavalry : but when this Dola departs, his successor will probably use 
them like the rest, and wretched will be their fate. I hope Govern- 
ment will take some steps to assert the dignity of the British flag, 
and recover to their country those, whose youth may, in some de- 
gree, palliate their desertion. 
July 13.— I have seen the man above mentioned ; he had been up 
at Moosa, and came down, without leave, to beg some medicine from 
me. He had appHed to the Dola of the place, who told him, that if 
he prayed as often as he did, he would not be ill. The man looked 
wretchedly, and told me he was afraid I was right in saying he 
should soon repent it. One of the boys who fled from the factory 
was very ill with the liver complaint, and extremely low spirited. 
