concluded that, as they had
not been sent to the northward, they were still in the neighbourhood.

One day, the interpreter having come on board, we got under way, and
without let or hindrance stood over the bar. We lay up well
along-shore, which is in some places very mountainous and rocky, and the
following day we were off Salee. This is also a bar harbour, but,
waiting for high-tide, we ran over it, and came to an anchor opposite
the town, and near an old fort, the guns of which did not look very
formidable. As we ran up the harbour we looked anxiously around to
ascertain if our friend the rover was there; but no vessel exactly like
her could we see, though there were several suspicious-looking craft,
which, no doubt, were engaged in the same calling. Salee itself is
composed chiefly of mean houses, with very narrow dirty steep streets;
but some of the dwellings in the higher part of the town are of greater
pretensions as to size and architectural beauty.

Our consignee in this place was an Armenian merchant, who presented a
great contrast in outward appearance to Mynheer Von Donk. Keon y Kyat
was tall, and thin, and sallow and grave, dressed in long dark robes,
and a high-pointed cap of Astrakan fur,--he looked more like a learned
monk than a merchant; but in one point he was exactly like his respected
correspondent,--he came to the country to make money, and money he was
resolved to make, at all events! This circumstance, however, was an
advantage to our enterprise, as he was willing for money to afford us
that assistance which he would, probably, otherwise have refused.

Our interpreter, Sidy Yeusiff, was a character in his way, though
certainly not one to be imitated. His mother was a Christian slave, an
Irish Roman Catholic, married to a Mohammedan Moor. She had brought him
up in her own faith, in which he continued till her death, when, to
obtain his liberty, he professed that of his stepfather. He had all the
vices consequent on slavery. He was cringing, cowardly, false, and
utterly destitute of all principle; but, at the same time, so plausible,
that it was difficult not to believe that he was speaking the truth. He
was a young, pleasant-looking man; and as he used to come forward and
talk freely with the seamen, he became a favourite on board. Poor
fellow! had he been brought up under more favourable circumstances, how
different might have been his character! His professed object was, of
cours