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some days, and the people were in the utmost distress. The Ame- 
rican Captain, Elkins, who was in Mocha last year, arrived on the 
loth. He found the markets strangely altered for the worse, and 
knew not what to do. He brought some pumps for Mr. Pringle, 
which the Dola refused to let pass ; a black renegado having in- 
formed him, that they were instruments used by the English for 
drowning a country. He said such things were never seen there 
before, and he must write to the Imaum on the subject. 
July 26. — The weather for the last three weeks had been very 
pleasant, the nights being perfectly cool. The wind had been chiefly 
west, which comes from Habesh, where the tropical rains are in all 
their force, and had then to pass over the sea. If it change to the 
east for half an hour, the heat becomes very great. It is nearly as 
bad from the south, there not being a sufficiency of sea to cool it 
after passing the burning deserts of Africa. On the ^4th we had a 
heavy squall in the night, when our friends the Portuguese lost an 
anchor. 
The Dola sent above half the garrison a few days before to Moosa, 
to bring in juwarry. They brought thirty camels' load, which va- 
nished in a moment. He charged three dollars and a half escort 
money for each camel. This is one way of living on the distress of 
the country. The poor people have nothing but dates and fishj and 
not plenty of these. 
Yesterday the Portuguese ship Rosalia sailed. Captain da Costa 
supplied us with five quarter-casks of Port, and took an order on 
Bombay for the same quantity. He also gave me some oil and 
some sweetmeats from Rio de Janeiro. I wrote by him to my friends 
in Europe, to the Governor General, and to Mr. Duncan, to whom 
