MOCHA. 
We were again alarmed by the incursions of the Wahabee, who 
were certainly in great force. The road to Moosa was unsafe ; and 
why this place was not attacked, I could not conceive. 
We had so many delays in passing provisions at the gate for the 
use of the ship, that Captain Court applied to the Bas Kateb. He 
declared he knew nothing of it; assured us he would speak to the 
Dola and Emir Bahar, admitting it was positively contrary to the 
Imaum's engagement, by which all provisions and stores were to 
pass free to the Factory and British ships. He hoped it would not 
happen again. The Dola was angry about the boy's leaving him, 
and took this method of showing his resentment. 
September 6.— Gardner, whom I have before mentioned, and 
another white man, nearly fifty years of age, ran away to the Dola*s. 
Captain Court sent to the Dola, but he was invisible, and could 
receive no message. On the 6th the Hadje obtained an audience, 
and was told by the Dola, that he had found these men so deter- 
mined to become Mussulmauns, that he made them so yesterday. 
This is with them illegal, as three days are allowed ; and it is 
necessary that a ^proper examination should take place, to prove 
their firm determination, and, that they should be instructed in the 
principles of the religion they wish to embrace. Here, however, 
the fear of Captain Court's inducing them to return, outweighed the 
Dolas sense of duty, and he violated his own laws to secure two 
proselytes. 
September 11. —Captain Court sailed on the 10th to survey a 
part of the opposite coast. Captain Lee and another American 
also sailed for Bengal, since the price of coffee here rendered any 
hope of profit out of the question ; the cessation of the English 
