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sengers returned with the camels. We now threatened the Dubbah 
with reporting his conduct to the Bashaw, who he very well knew 
was our friend ; but he appeared not to mind what we said, and did 
not offer to interest himself in our behalf. Our refractory camel- 
drivers still refused to bring their camels, although they did not 
attempt to proceed further on the offensive than the hammering and 
priming above mentioned ; and nothing seemed left for us, but to 
put our proposed plan into execution, however ill-timed the delay 
might be to us, and however unpleasant might be the annoyances 
which we should probably have been exposed to from the Arabs to 
whose encampment we must remove, while at variance with the 
Dubbah and his relations. As there was, however, no alternative but 
submission to the mutineers, or the immediate adoption of some plan 
like that we have mentioned, we made up our minds at once upon 
the occasion; and having concerted arrangements for despatching 
two of our party to Bengazi, we were proceeding to put them in 
execution, when matters began to assume a different aspect, and our 
project very happily was rendered unnecessary. 
The Dubbah was the first who began to relent ; he had proba- 
bly been reflecting upon our threat of reporting his conduct, and he 
very well knew what an unfavourable footing he would stand upon 
with the Bashaw, if he ventured so decidedly to disobey the injunc- 
tions he had received from him when he was directed to conduct us 
to Bengazi. He now came out of his tent, and going first to one of 
his party and then to another, pretended that he was using all the 
means in his power to induce them to relinquish their demands, and 
