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We caught a great quantity of fine fifh this night with 

 a line, fome of them weighing 14 pounds. The befl were 

 blue in the back, like a falmon, but their belly red, and 

 marked with blue round fpots. They refembled a falmon 

 in fhape, but the fifh was white, and not fo firm. 



Jn the morning of the 6th we made the JafFateen Iflands. 

 They are four in number, joined by {hoals and iunken rocks. 

 They are crooked, or bent, like half a bow, and are danger- 

 ous for mips failing in the night, becaufe there feems to 

 t>e a paffage between them, to which, when pilots are at- 

 tending, they neglecF two fmall dangerous funk rocks, that 

 lie almofl in the middle of the entrance, in deep water. 



I understood, afterwards, from the Rais, that, had it not 

 been from fome marks he faw of blowing weather, he 

 would not have come in to the JafFateen Iflands, but flood 

 clireftly for Tor, running between the ifland Sheduan, and 

 a rock which is in the middle of the channel, after you pafs 

 Ras Mahomet. But we lay fo perfectly quiet, the whole 

 night, that we could not but be grateful to the Rais for his 

 care, although we had fe-en no apparent reafon for it. 



Next morning, the 7th, we left our very quiet birth in 

 the bay, and flood clofe, nearly fouth-eafl, along-ikle of the 

 two fouthernaoft JafFateen Iflands our head upon the center 

 of Sheduan, till we had cleared the eafccrrnofl of thofe 

 iflands about three miles. We then paiTed Sheduan, leaving 

 it to the callward about three leagues, and keeping nearly 

 a N. N. W. courfe, to range the weft fide of jibbel Zcit. This 

 is a large defert ifland, or rock, that is about four miles 

 from the main. 



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