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added, that had I received any instructions from India inimical to 
him, I should have proceeded directly to Loheia, and not visited 
him and drank coffee with him. He at length declared he was 
satisfied, and that I had removed a heavy load from his mind. 
When I arose up to take my leave, I requested to put his hand 
into Mr. Pringle s, to which he consented ; and I left them profes- 
sedly friends. He conducted me the whole length of the room quite 
to the door, a compliment he never before paid to any one. 
The whole conversation gave me a much better opinion of his 
understanding than I had before. He certainly had reason for his 
alarms ; and the manner in which he pushed forward the enquiry 
was decorous, yet able. The Wahabees are assembling a very large 
force at Loheia and Hodeida, They have collected the revenue of 
Beit~il-Fakih and the surrounding country, and have sent to Mocha 
to say they will be there as soon as Ramadan is over. They have 
many friends in the town, and I sea nothing that can resist them. 
To add to the Dola's alarms, I arrived in a vessel, which, instead 
of anchoring in the roads near the fort, kept aloof to the north ; 
and instead of landing, I only sent off letters to the Resident. To 
his fears, therefore, I attribute his civility; and in this idea I am 
confirmed by Nathaniel Pierce, one of the men who, from fear of 
Captain Keys, ran away from the Antelope, and turned Mussul- 
maun : this man, through my servant, applied to me, stating the 
wretched situation he was in, declaring his sincere repentance, and 
beseeching me to permit him to attend me, even as a slave, to 
Europe. I consented to receive him, and he came off in the boat 
last night. He tells me that the Dola has been alarmed ever since 
my departure, suspecting that I was gone to the Wahabees, and 
