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the furface of the wheat upon which all the pafTengers lye* 

 On the leafl agitation of the waves, the fea getting in upon 

 the wheat, increafes its weight fo prodigioufly, that, fall- 

 ing below the level of the gunnel, the water rulhes in 

 between the plank and that part of the veflel, and down 

 it goes to the bottom. 



Though every day produces an accident of this kind 

 from the fame caufe, yet fuch is the defire of gaining 

 money in that feafon, which offers but once a-year, that 

 every fhip fails, loaded in the fame manner as the lafl 

 which perifhed. This was jufl the cafe with the veflel 

 that had carried the Turks. Anxious to go away, they 

 would not wait the figns of the weather being rightly 

 fettled. Ullah Kerim ! they cry, ' God is great and is merci- 

 ful' ; and upon that they embark in a navigation, where 

 it needs indeed a miracle to fave them. 



The Turks all came afhore but one ; the youngeft, and, 

 according to all appearance, the befl, had fallen over board,, 

 and perifhed. The Bey received them, and with great cha- 

 rity entertained them all at his own expence, but they were 

 fo terrified with the fea, as almofl to refolve never to make 

 another attempt. 



The Bey had brought with him from Jidda, a fmall, but 



tight veflel belonging to * Sheher ; which came from that 



country loaded with frankincenfe, the commodity of that 



Vol. I. c c port. 



On the eaft coaft of Arabia Felix, Syagrum Promontoriura. 



