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and English who are residing here. all of whom drive on a brisk and profitable trade with the Natives for ivory Rice Gum. copal gold dust, Tortoise shell, cloves spice & curious and useful woods ebony. sandal. box & Dye stuffs skins hides &c. These things they buy up from the savages from the interior of Africa for blades bangles and dollars cloth cottons and knives &c. Many of (these savage come down from their wild haunts and they are dressed in a curious and fantastic style some with heavy bangles on arms and legs weighing many pounds others with huge rings in their ears and noses and some again with brass and silver wire wove round & round their bodies and others again having all these trinkets and some again with tatooing and scarifying half moons and ridges over their faces across their noses and under their eyes, then others have their teeth sharpened to fit one in another like sharks. some again big men and head men have all these charms. one woman I observed with a large silver watch in each ear, a silver dollar [?brazed?] on a brass ring for a finger ring. a large brass bangle one one arm and a silver on on the other. with numerous trinkets around her neck and some few around her ankles to enumerate all their custom would be too numerous for this volume.) There is an American and English and French consul here. The Americans have cut out all others in trade and are the most business men of the place. The English consul is a thick headed, head strong, hard drinking hard fighting good natured irish man once was a Capt in the English Army. and is now consul and political agent for the English East India Company. he does no business except Consular but lives on his salary which is [?15000$?] per year. one of the most important personages of this place (besides a good hearted clever fellow & commodore) is Capt or Commodore Seid Hamet ben Hapen. he is an old bachelor gets drunk when he chooses and is hospitable &c. talks plain and sensible speaks good english and is as polite as a dancing Master. We called on him he has a neat comfortable and pretty house furnished both with an [?] to taste and comfort. I called on him afterwards and found him a pleasant old fellow offered me wine and sherbet and other refreshments. some months ago the old fellow had a knowing slave (he had 1000) who finding his master used to get fuddled stole money enough to buy his freedom, but, still continuing in his Masters service he told him that he had discovered a pot of Money containing 6 or 8000$ in a field belonging to Ben Hapen, and promised to show it for 100$. this was given him but he told the old Capt that a spirit or devil or genie had moved it and said for more money he would show it to him so more money was given until old Ben Hapen began to get tired and the Rascal was obliged to give him some satisfaction so he led Ben Hapen to an old field and after digging they found a jar with a few pieces of rotten leather bags and 4 or 5 $ in the bottom. the old fellow still believes that there was Money $6 or 8000 in the pot and that it had been removed by some genie or wicked or guardian spirit. Back of the sultans palaces custom houses is the city it is built of all kinds of materials. bamboo and leaves[?logs?] coral and stones. the streets are so narrow that it is difficult