Hay, no mission could possibly succeed--failure was certain. And so I might continue the opposite parallels. But in justice to these late functionaries and their friends, I must observe, that both were zealous servants of Government and their country. They exerted themselves diligently and conscientiously to protect and advance the interests of their countrymen, who had relations with Tripoli or Morocco, according to their peculiar temperaments and circumstances. No doubt they gave Government at home an immense deal of unnecessary trouble, and sometimes even annoyance; but so long as each public functionary abroad thinks the affairs of his own particular post of more importance than those of anybody else, this inconvenience will always happen, in a lesser or greater degree. Said furnishes me with a continual anti-slavery text against the slave-trade. Everybody asks me if Said is a slave. I reply, "Slavery is a great sin amongst the English. We cannot have slaves, or make slaves of our fellow-creatures." Then follow discussions, in which I damnify the traffick in human beings as much as possible. Today witnessed a good specimen of Arab Desert freedom. I was conversing quietly with the Governor, seated beside him on his ottoman, a privilege granted only to me, the Nather (_native_ governor) and the Kady, when rushed into the apartment a Souafee Arab, exclaiming to the Rais, "How are you?" and seizing hold of his hands, knocked his fly-flap down on the floor. His Excellency was shocked at this rudeness, and I myself was a little startled. The conversation which followed, if such it may be called, is characteristic of the bold Arab, and the haughty Turk. _The Souafee._--"The Shânbah are coming to Ghadames." _The Governor._--"I don't know; God knows." _The Souafee._--"My brothers write to me and tell me so." _The Governor._--"I don't know." _The Souafee._--"Give me money, and I'll go and look after them." _The Governor._--"I have no money." _The Souafee._--"Make haste, give me money." _The Governor._--"Have none." _The Souafee._--"Where's the money?" _The Governor._--"Go to the Ghadamseeah." _The Souafee._--"They tell me you have all their money." _The Governor._--"Go to them." _The Souafee._--"I'm going, _Bislamah_ (good bye.)" _The Governor._--"Bislamah."