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some with two, some with three, and some with five guns : some 
twice, some three times. I was too much disgusted to speak to them 
myself on the occasion, but on their being laughed at by some of our 
officers, they replied, that they did not know what the colours were 
hoisted for ; it was the Dola's doing ; and was not he master of the 
roads ? I should not have cared for their degradation, had I not been 
afraid that the natives might have taken these Americans for Euro- 
peans and Christians, in consequence of which we might have shared 
in the contempt they appeared so anxious to acquire. 
October 1^. — On the IJth, at night. Fowler, whom I have before ' 
mentioned as having run away from Captain Keys, went on board 
the Panther, as my servant. He was anxious to escape from the 
wretched life of a renegado, and applied to me to take him. As he 
understood Arabic, he might be as useful as Abdallah was the last 
voyage. They were equally deserters from the Company's service, 
and, if it do not choose to reclaim them, I could have no scruple 
in employing them in my service. There were many circumstances 
in his case which rendered him an object of compassion, and his 
conduct in Arabia was good. He was to have gone up to Sana 
in a few days to be presented to the Imaum. More pains had 
been taken with his education than were ever before bestowed 
upon any one. The Dola had declared that he would not lose 
him for a thousand dollars ; it was therefore, I must confess, a par- 
ticular gratification to me, to find that he was punished for his 
inhospitality. 
Unus Barilla returned on the 1 1th, without the letters from Mr. 
Salt. This was owing to a mistake in writing to him to be here the 
15 th of the moon, instead of the 15 th of the month. He brought 
