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MOCHA. 
Naquecla of the dow. He asked one hundred and fifty dollars for 
the trip, and I gave them to him, lest there should be any delay at 
Massowah. It rendered us completely independent of the Nayib. 
On the evening of the 30th I visited the Dola, to request the gates 
might be opened for me at four o'clock in the morning, that I might 
be gone before the wind freshened. He said it could not be, and 
began to argue about it. I was very angry, and told him, that if he 
had not offered it, I should never have made the application. He 
wanted me to go out at the sally port, which I positively refused, and 
desired that the servants might be turned out of the room that we 
might speak in private. This was done ; and Mr. Pringle pointedly 
reprobated his caprice about the gates. He then said they should 
be open. 
We had now a very singular political conversation of about two 
hours. It began by his observing that old customs should be pre- 
served. This I denied, and said they ought to change with the 
times : that in India we had become masters by the will of God, 
and that many customs existed before that period, which must now 
be laid aside. He replied, *' I know very well that is the case in 
India; but what do you English mean to do with Yemen?" I re^ 
plied, laughing, nothing, but to get as much coffee from it as we 
can." He said, he believed we were all Wahabees. I told him I 
knew but one Wahabee, and that was Sidi Mohammed Akil. He 
laughed, and asked how I knew him to be one. I replied, he told 
me so. 
He now asked Mr. Pringle's permission to say something to me, 
which being of course granted, he began a regular complaint 
against that gentleman; " that without his knowledge he had 
