Her Crew And Passengers Consisted Of Seventy-Five Persons,
Of Whom Twenty Were Appointed To Bale Out Water And For Other Purposes
Below, Eight For The Helm, Four For Top And Yard And Other Business
Aloft, And Twenty Boys For Dressing The Provisions, All The Rest Being
Merchants And Pilgrims.
Her burden was 140 tons.
Having carefully
examined them, and finding they belonged to a place which had never
wronged our nation, I only took out two tons of water, with their own
permission, and dismissed them, giving them strict injunctions not to go
to Aden, or I would sink their ship. So they made sail, standing farther
out from the land, but going to leewards, we were forced to stand off
and on all day and night, lest in the night she might slip into Aden.
[Footnote 361: Perhaps rather Ibrahim Abu Zeynda, or Sinda. - Astl. I.
421. b.]
[Footnote 362: Probably turmeric. - E.]
Every ship we saw, before we could come to speak them, had advice sent
by the governor of Aden to inform them of us. When the Calicut ship was
under our command, the governor sent off a boat, manned with Arabs,
having on board two Turkish soldiers of the garrison, who had formerly
been instruments of Abdal Rahman[363] aga, to bind and torture our men
whom they had betrayed. On seeing our men, whom they had used so ill,
they were in great doubt what usage they might now receive, as their
guilty conscience told them they merited no good treatment at our hands.
They brought some fruit to sell, and, I suppose, came as spies to see
what we were doing.
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