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claimed protection from the guard, which was immediately granted^ 
and he was rescued from the officer. I immediately sent to the 
Dola, representing that this Indian subject of ours was already a 
Mussulmaun, and that consequently the usual plea of conversion 
could not justify his keeping him from us. He sent in reply, " that 
he would protect every body, who wished for his protection, and 
that I might send word of it to the Government of India." I 
answered, '' that I would do so ; for, that I considered his answer 
as insolent, and such as no servant of the Imaum ought to have 
dared to send to the Governor of India. I can only attribute the 
alteration in the Dola's language, to the confidence inspired by the 
information brought by the Seid from the Isle of France. 
September 1. — Devage's dow sailed for India: by her I wTote an 
account of the Dola's conduct. In a conversation with the Bas 
Kateb, he justified the measure of taking our men, and said, that if 
the Governor of India wrote to them about it, they should only 
answer, '* it was their custom, and they would do it." 
From the multitude of ships of the Americans, I really believe 
they think them a greater nation than the English. 
Unus's dow returned; he wrote by his son a joint letter to me, 
Captain Court, and Mr. Pringle, representing that he had sent off my 
dispatches, and that the man had promised to be back by the 5th 
of the next moon. He, however, added, that he had promised to 
pay him fifty dollars, and could not return till we sent it him. 
This was certainly an impudent attempt of our friend Unus, as I 
had before paid him for the whole. I therefore told his son I would 
not give a penny more, with which he appeared perfectly satisfied, 
^nd no more claims were urged. 
