CHAPTER VI. 
RESIDENCE AT SOCCATOO, TILL THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR. 
Shortly after my arrival at Soccatoo, I was visited by all the 
Arabs of the place, who began to pay me a great many compliments, 
and after that, to beg every thing they saw in my possession. They 
immediately recollected my servant, Mahomed El Siekis, who was 
formerly a slave of Bukhaloom, and the only one of his army who 
brought off the flag of the bashaw of Tripoli, at the battle with the 
Fellatas at Musfeia ; and the same man who restored Major Denham 
his horse, when he thought he had lost it in that action. I had 
found this man a slave to a Fellata, in the town of Korfu, and 
bought him for 25,700 cowries, and gave him his liberty. These 
villains of Arabs now advised him to leave me, because I was a 
Christian; telling him that they would maintain him. I told him 
he was at full liberty to go, when and where he pleased ; that he 
was now free, and no longer a slave : but I advised him not to go 
away like a thief and abscond, but to leave me boldly and openly ; 
at the same time I desired him only to look at the dirty and ragged 
tobes of his advisers, poor rascals, who were not able to buy soap 
to wash themselves or keep their clothes clean, still less to give him 
food, wages, and clothes as I did. 
On taking a survey of Soccatoo, I was not able to see much, if 
any, alteration in its buildings, though I understand it was nearly 
consumed by fire last winter, said to be the work of the rebels of 
