SUAKIN. 
pleasant intelligence, as we were short of rice, and other articles ; 
the cock-roaches having eaten much and wasted more. The wea- 
ther, as usual ; wind from the N. E. and N. W. We took on board 
more stones, having received the requisite permission, on paying 
^even dollars. I had a letter from the Dola, saying that the pilots 
who brought us in had in the first instance been promised thirty- 
five dollars. We had paid them twenty, with which they de- 
parted extremely well satisfied ; this therefore was too barefaced 
an imposition to Succeed. We laughed at the demand, and refused 
to pay it. 
February 16. — The water came off at eight, and Abdallah 
brought two large sheep, and a request from the Dola, that we 
would give him some tobacco. We sent him ten pounds. Unus 
came off for his letter, and to take his leave, his bargain extending 
only to this place. We gave him from the Company thirty 
dollars for his exertions in saving the Panther when aground, with 
which he was the more delighted, as he had no expectations 
beyond the presents we had given him that night. We asked if he 
would hire himself to accompany us as far as Jibbel Macowar, to 
which place we meant to have pilots ; their knowledge of the coast 
extending no further, as they there strike off for Jidda. He said 
he had no objection, but that he must consult his crew, who were 
only hired to Suakin. Many of the men of the water-boat had 
been very pressing every day for drams. This morning they again 
made their representations to me, through Abdallah. I told them, 
that I had been informed Mussulmauns did not drink any thing of 
that sort, and consequently had not provided myself with a sufficient 
stock ; but that itt future, now I had found out my mistake, I 
