The General Immediately Departed Toward
The Bab, With The Trades-Increase And Darling, Leaving Me In The
Pepper-Corn At Anchor, About Eight Leagues East From Aden.
Early in the morning of the 3d we set sail to the southwards, the better
to discover, and so all day we kept to windward of Aden.
We soon
descried three sail bound for Aden, but they stood away from us, and we
could not get near them, as it blew hard. At night we did not come to
anchor, but lay to, to try the current by our drift, which I found to be
three leagues in ten hours. The morning of the 4th I came to anchor a
league or four miles from Aden, in twelve fathoms. Seeing a ship
approaching, we set sail very early in the morning of the 12th to
intercept her; and at day-light saw her at anchor about three miles
south of us. We immediately made sail towards her, which she perceiving,
got under weigh for Aden. Between nine and ten, by firing a shot, she
struck her top-sails, and sent her boat to us, saying she belonged to
the Zamorin, or King of Calicut, whence they had been forty days. The
nakhada, or commander of this ship, was Abraham Abba Zeinda,[361] and
her cargo, according to their information, consisted of tamarisk,[362]
three tons; rice, 2300 quintals; jagara, or brown sugar, forty bahars;
cardamoms, seven bahars; dried ginger, four and a half quintals; pepper,
one and a half ton; cotton, thirty-one bales, each containing five or
six maunds.
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