I
Therefore Altered My Determination Of Last Night, And Immediately Sent
Off One Of My Merchants With A Letter To
Sir Henry, giving an account of
the proceedings of my voyage, and of our entertainment here; and if he
had
Not come thus to the Red Sea, I meant to have sent two of my
principal men up to Zenan.
It may be proper to note, that the two India ships, formerly mentioned,
discharged the following goods at Mokha. Lignum aloes, 60 quintals:
Indigo, 600 churles, out of both ships: Sashes of all sorts, or Jong
narrow cloths for turbans, a great quantity: Cinnamon of Ceylon, 150
bahars, each bahar being three churles and a half: Osfar, which is a
red dye, a large quantity: A great store of cloves: A great quantity of
bastas, or white calicos, from 20 to 40 dollars the corge, a corge
being twenty pieces. The price of indigo was from as low as 30, to 35,
40, and 50 dollars the churle.
I wrote on the 7th to the captain of the town, Mahomet Bey, desiring him
to induce the India merchants to barter with me at reasonable rates, for
such commodities as suited us, so as to load one of our ships; by which
Sir Henry Middleton would be satisfied they now meant to deal in a
friendly manner with us, and would be induced to forbear hostilities. At
this time there was a report in the town, that Sir Henry had taken a
jelba or two, coming over with provisions from the Abyssinian side, so
that we durst hardly venture our skiff and gang on shore.
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