text:  While he was preparing however to repair to the place of meeting he received a private intimation through the merchant already mentioned Reshid-Ebn-Abdallih to the effect that the Arab chiefs had determined on seizing his person at the interview in order to possess themselves of the papers connected with the proposed transfer of Aden (to which Sultan Hamed had from the first been strongly opposed ) and in particular of the bond for 4191 dollars which had been given in satisfaction for the balance of the goods in the Derya-Dowlut