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bullocks as a present from his uncle, who, (and not his father, as I 
before understood,) is Emir of the Chief Bedowee tribe in the 
neighbourhood. Captain Rudland, Mr. Salt, and myself, wore, 
Asiatic dresses ; Captain Court was in his uniform. We departed 
soon after breakfast, under a salute of seventeen o;uns. On landinty, 
one gun was fired, which shook the mortar from the gateway under 
which we were passing. Two Janisaries in decent red dresses 
conducted us to a little plain room, at the upper end of which was 
placed a common couch of the country, covered with a carpet 
and two cushions ; on the right.of this were three chairs, a fourth 
was soon brought. Opposite was a low stone bench covered with 
carpet; behind us was the same, both extending the whole 
length of the building A reverend Arab of sixty, tall, and thin, 
was presented to us by Emir Mohammed, as his father. The usual 
compliments passed. After being seated a little time, the Turkish 
Dola entered, and making a general salaam, seated himself. We 
paid our compliments through Abdallah, and returned thanks for 
the pilots he had sent us, and the provisions. He said he was happy 
to assist the English, who were ever friends of the Sultaun of Rome. 
Coffee was brought, and nothing interesting passed, till I asked if 
he had any late news from Misr. He said, yes, very late. That all 
w^as now quiet there ; that the Turks had got possession of the whole 
country, having an army of 60,000 men. That the English had 
entered the Port of Iscandaria with sixty vessels of different descrip- 
tions, and had landed soldiers there. He added, that the Beys were 
quiet, and that there were five Turkish Pachas there. On asking 
about Jidda, he assured me that 10,000 Turks had liberated Mecca 
from the Wahabee, and were on their march to Jidda. Yambo also 
