S90 
MOCHA. 
" Suud to Selim. 
" I entered Mecca on the 4th day of Moharem, in the l^isth 
year of the Hejira. I kept peace towards the inhabitants. I 
destroyed all the tombs which they idolatrously worshipped. 1 
abolished the levying of all customs above two and a half per cent. 
I confirmed the Cadi, whom you had appointed to govern in the 
place agreeably to the commands of Mohammed. I desire that, in 
the ensuing years, you will give orders to the Pachas of Shaum, Syria, 
Misr, and Egypt, not to come accompanied by the Mahaniel,* trum- 
pets, and drums, into Mecca and Medina. For why? religion is not 
profited by these things. Peace be between us, and may the blessing 
of God be unto you I Dated on the ]Oth day of Moharem,'^ This 
answers to our 3d of May. 
On the 1 1 th of May Suud marched against Jidda ; but the delay at 
Mecca had given time to the Sherifife to prepare for his reception, 
by bringing on shore all the cannon from the vessels in the harbour, 
and planting them on the walls. An attempt was made by the 
Wahabee to storm the town, but it failed; Suud, however, con- 
trived to cut oflfall supplies, even of water ; in consequence of which, 
numbers perished by thirst, in the nine days that the blockade 
continued ; and at length the Sheriffe was forced by the inha- 
bitants to offer a sum of money to Suud, on condition of his 
abandoning the siege. The arrangements were actually made for 
the payment of a lac and thirty thousand dollars, when the in- 
telligence arrived of the death of Abduluziz, which induced Suud 
to return instantly to Daraie, lest any rival should dispute the suc- 
cession. Jidda was thus saved, and even Mecca fell again under 
* The richly ornamented covering for the Caaba, 
