MASSOWAH. 
do just as I pleased. On this I dismissed him. Alii Nohri was sent on 
shore in the course of the day to return to Mocha, as I did not con- 
sider it safe to take him with us. after his misconduct at Dhalac. 
Captain Rudland, Mr. Salt, and Mr.Maxheld, slept at the old resi- 
dence of Captain Keys ; Mr. Macgie, and all our servants, staid with 
me at Abou YusufF's. Captain Court, from the difference of con- 
duct in the Nayib, thought it advisable to send six marines on shore 
as a guard. The air was cool and pleasant the whole night. 
January 18. — Captain Rudland, Mr. Salt,: Mr. Macgie, my servant, 
and Pierce, were out by break of day on a shooting excursion : the 
Nayib's son went with them : Captain Court came on shore to break- 
fast with me. Soon afterwards the Nayib's servant, who attended 
Mr. Salt at Dhalac, came with the Banian, and represented, that Alii 
Nohri had been saying, that I had given him two hundred dollars for 
the tomb-stones mentioned in Mr. Salt's account, and as much to the 
Dola of Dhalac ; that the Nayib was very angry with them, and he 
begged I would take all the blame on myself. I told him I not only 
would, but that I considered myself as at liberty to keep them on 
the sole condition of the Nayib giving his permission; and that if 
he wished it, I would restore them. This I desired the Banian to 
tell the Nayib. He also informed me, that Alii Nohri had declared 
I came to build a fort, and conquer the island, and that other ships 
were coming, 
I felt heartily vexed at having let this fellow go on shore, who had 
probably excited suspicion and alarm in the breasts of the natives, 
which it would be almost impossible for me to eradicate, and which 
would disappoint my well-founded hopes, that every thing would go 
in the usual amicable way, and that a permanent commercial 
