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left us well pleased. We tried the whole day, but without success, 
to procure fowls ; they are chiefly at Arkeko, and as the Banian 
will not buy them, there is a difficulty in finding others to do it. 
The Banian came again in the evening, about eight., to say the 
Nayib was come, and wished me to go and see him : this I most 
peremptorily refused. He then requested that Abdallah might gOj 
to which I consented, and sent by him to the Nayib eight china 
dishes, which I heard would be acceptable. After settling our 
accounts, he gave me another piece of Habesh cloth, and I gave him 
a shawl. I wrote a letter to Mr. Pringle, stating my ideas respect- 
ing the trade of Massowah, and requesting he would never employ 
Alii Nohri. Abdallah, on his return, brought a letter to me from 
the Nayib, and another for the Dola of Suakin. My servant and 
Pierce were out a great part of the day, so also were the dow-boys ; 
they procured a few good Cypraeae, but no others. 
January 21.— At four we began to unmoor: at half after six the 
Nayib's elder son, his brother the Sirdar, the Vizier, Abou YusufF, 
and the Banian came on board, as they said, to express the Nayibs 
anxious desire that I should go away in friendship with him. A 
question was added, which betrayed their real motive, which was, 
whether I meant to give any thing else to the Nayib, At first I deter- 
mined to do so, knowing that he really was tormented for money; 
but afterwards considered that it would be better, to express some 
feeling of disapprobation at the difference of treatment that I had re* 
ceived on this my second visit. I therefore called the son and Vizier 
into the cabin, and assured them that I parted a sincere friend, but 
that I must feel mortified at being obliged to leave the shore, and 
could not therefore send a present as a proof of satisfaction ; that I 
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