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purchases having lowered the markets only to ninety-eight Mocha 
dollars. The Americans get between two and three hundred 
bales per week. The whole quantity sold at Mocha between 
August twelvemonth and last August, was twelve thousand bales. I 
wrote to Lord Wellesley by Captain Lee. stating all that had passed 
with the Dola. 
On the 10th all the guns were fired to celebrate the raising of 
the siege of Sana. We never heard here that it had been attacked. 
It was not the Wahabee that were beaten, but some Bedowee tribes, 
who inhabit the hills, and are a brave and hardy race, that have 
had claims on the Imaum since the time, they assisted in liberating 
the country from the Turkish yoke. Their loss, by the Dola's 
account, amounted to twenty killed ; the Imaum's loss was not men- 
tioned. Most people believed it all a fiction to raise money ; as the 
Dola generally, on those occasions, levies contributions for the 
expense the Imaum has been at in protecting his subjects. 
September 13.— -The weather for some days had considerably 
changed. It was frequently calm, and easterly winds have blown; 
we had in the morning a southerly light air, which gradually 
moved to the west by the middle of the day, to the north in the 
evening, and round by the E. to S. in the course of the night. These 
light airs and calms on the l^th, saved the town of Mocha. As I 
was in bed that night, I was alarmed by a fire which consumed 
thirty or forty thatched houses, close to the American Factory. If 
the wind had blown from the south or west, the whole town would 
have been consumed; but as it was a perfect calm, our fears were 
over in a few hours. Some Samaulies exerted themselves in ex- 
tinguishing the fire, in order to save their vessels, which were lying 
