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The buggalow in which I came from Aden was now anchored in Bunder Gori. It had made a voyage somewhere in the meanwhile, but the captain had been afraid to go to Aden in consequence of the salt question, in which Sumunter had made him confederate, fearing lest I might have since written to the authorities there about it.
Aden Departure Kurrum A Conclave of Sages Arangement of the Expedition The South-west Monsoon Medical Practice The Camp Besieged Wounded and Captive A Triumphal Procession Flight Return to Aden and to England Projects. 21st March 1855. Having engaged a buggalow and stowed away all the traps, I embarked in the evening, weighed anchor, and set sail.
The caravan marched over the plain into Kurayat, or Little Las Kuray, where Lieutenant Speke, after a detention of upwards of a fortnight, took boat, and after five days' sail arrived at Aden, where I was expecting him. He was charged forty dollars five times the proper sum for a place in a loaded Buggalow: from Aden to Bombay thirty-five dollars is the hire of the whole cabin.
When they want to lay out an anchor, they have nothing to do but to hand it over to Ali, and he walks away with it into six or eight feet without any ado. I went once upon a time in the dark to grope for a berth on board of his buggalow, and, stumbling over some one's toes, enquired to whom they belonged. 'To Ali, was the reply.
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