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would return with them. He frequently asked Pierce if I was as 
great a man as Sir Home Popham, and whether he thought I should 
come back. Pierce assured him I should not ; yet here I was, at the 
moment the Wahabees were expected. 
I confess I felt very great pleasure in depriving the Dola of this 
man at so critical a moment. All the old renegadoes had gone off 
with a party of fifty Turks belonging to dows, who marched them 
down to the pier in the middle of the day, and the Dola's askaris 
dared not attempt to prevent them. They became Wahabees, and 
are now at Loheia, ready to march against Mocha, every foot of 
which they are perfectly acquainted with. They know the proper 
place for the attack, and even sent word to Pierce not to be near 
the middle fort, as they should enter there. This may be done with 
the utmost facility, as the ports are only a few feet from the ground. 
The Dola is so much alarmed that, on about one hundred Waha- 
bees coming to one of the gates, and offering to inlist with him, he 
gave them a dollar each, and sent them away ; afraid to take them, 
and yet afraid to refuse. It is singular, that the very act of procur- 
ing converts, on which the Dola so much prided himself, should 
now conduce to his ruin. His violation of the law of nations recoils 
on his own head. One of the two boys, who escaped from the factory, 
is dead ; the other is to be married this Ede. The little boys are very 
ill. I sent them some medicine, which they took secretly ; the bi- 
gotry of the Mussulmauns will not allow them to do it openly. Some 
lau danum I gave Pierce was taken from him : they said it was sheitan, 
and that prayers were better. All the remaining renegadoes mean to 
try to get off in the three American ships : when we went on shore , 
they were at Moosa, so that our people did not see them. 
