text:  In pursuance of this denunciation all supplies even of wood and water were refused to the ship; the Banyan in charge of the Derya-Dowlut's cargo was prohibited from giving up the goods to the English; and though the interchange of letters was kept up as briskly as before the resolution of Sultan Hamed was not to be shaken by this torrent of diplomacy: and he constantly adhered to his first expressed position--"I wish much to be friends and that amity was between us but you must not speak or write about the land of Aden again