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HISTORY OF THE INDIAN NAYY.
Burton and Speke on their first exploration of Equatorial
Africa. After a brief stay at Zanzibar, where the officers
received great kindness from the Sultan, and the British Consul
and Hon. Company's Agent, Colonel Haraerton—who died
on the ensuing 5th of July—the 'Elphinstone ? sailed for
Aden, where Captain Frushard performed the duty of senior
naval officer, to which he had been appointed from the 3rd of
August, until his departure to England, on sick leave, in
1858.
We will now give some details of affairs at Aden, taking up
the thread of the narrative from the year 1848, the point at
which we had left off. The Red Sea squadron of the Indian
Navy found ample employment in keeping the Arab tribes
and the Soomalies on the opposite coast, to their treaty
engagements, or in punishing them for repeated outrages.
The first of a series which for many years compli
cated the relations of the British with the Arab tribes near
Aden, occurred on the 29th of May, 1850. A boat from the
Hon. Company's steam-frigate 4 Auckland,' proceeded to the
north coast of the harbour, and the crew, having ventured on
shore, were attacked by a body of Bedouins from Bir Ahmed;
Abbas was at Mecca on our arrival at Jiddab., and I despatched Cole and Nubar
Bey on dromedaries to find him. They were fortunate, and returned with him,
when I sailed at once and landed him in Suez on the eighth or ninth day after
Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's death, and so saved much trouble in Egypt; for already there
were four parties in the field—Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's sons, the Army, the Priests, and
the faction from Constantinople. I received the approval of the Home and
Bombay Oovernments, but, until then, I had my doubts whether I should not be
" checked " for the coal I had expended.
" Before reaching Suez, Nubar Bey came to me and said the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. wished me
to accept a sum of money in purses. I don't remember how many, but as a purse
is £15, I know the total was a goodly sum. I told Nubar to inform the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. i
could not accept one, the rules of the Service expressly forbidding it. At buez a
crowd of notables from Cairo greeted our landing, among them a Co on el Bonthron,
or some such name, who was one of Ibrahim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's suite when on his visi
to England, and Abbas gave me into his charge to be escorted to Cairo, where i
was lodged in the palace of the Foreign Minister. The director of the prmeipa
"hotel came daily for orders about meals, &c., ' by order, also various o cers
know where I wished to visit, and mv servants might each have had a carriage
had I willed so. The palaces were open to me, a review of the cavalry was
ordered expressly for my pleasure, and on all occasions of my visiting or ri g
with the Viceroy, I was received with marked distinction and seated m tiie pia
of honour, and I found that he had daily information of how I had beenattende
to. Of course I was a ' big man' in Cairo, and had no end of supphants lor j
good word to the ' Supreme Head.' Although presents were offered me i neve
accepted more than an amber mouth-piece, the value of which I gave,
Cairo, as gratuities to those who had attended upon me. , ^
" I had a very gratifying reception on taking leave, and while tie ,
several letters fro'm Nubar Bey, written by direction of the
he termed the Viceroy), all showing that Abbas Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. had » l"ely t0 be
of what we had done for him. In one he said he had o" 1 ? rg of
built, to be called the 1 FeroozV In another that I and t „j „ ,, arr i a ge
' Ferooz' were to be free of the Desert.' Again,' That he had ordered a carnage
from London for me, which, however, never reached me.
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