text:  49 ) seems to consider it doubtful; [45] but Captain Haines acted as if fully convinced of the correctness of the intelligence which he had received; and after reproaching Sultan Hamed with his intended perfidy returned first to Mokha and afterwards (in February) to Bombay carrying with him the letter in which the old Sultan was alleged to have given his consent to the cession but leaving the recovered goods at Aden in charge of a Banyan--a tolerably strong proof by the way that the Sultan notwithstanding the bad faith laid to his charge was not considered likely to appropriate them afresh