THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 1G3 



rained at times in the mountains here, for we were now 

 confiderably within the tropic, which paffes very rear Ras 

 el Himma, whereas Rabac is half a degree to the fouth- 

 ward. 



On the 2d, at five o'clock in the morning, we failed from 

 Rabac, with a very little wind, fcarcely making two knots 

 an hour. 



At half paft nine, Deneb bore eaft and by fouth from us. 

 This place is known by a few palm-trees. The port is 

 fmall, and very indifferent, at leaft for fix months of the 

 year, becaufe it lies open to the fouth, and there is a pro- 

 digious fwell here. 



At one o'clock we paffed an ifland called Hammel, a- 

 bout a mile off ; at the fame time, another ifland, El Me- 

 mifk, bore eaft of us, about three miles, where there is good 

 anchorage. 



At three and three quarters, we paffed an ifland called 

 Gawad, a mile and a quarter fouth-eaft of us. The main 

 bore likewife fouth-eaft, diftant fomething more than a 

 league. We here changed our courfe from fouth to W. S. W.. 

 and at four o'clock came to an anchor at the fmall ifland of 

 Lajack. 



The 3d, we failed at half paft four in the morning, our 

 courfe W. S. W. but it fell calm ; after having made about a 

 league, we found ourfelves off Ras Hateba, or the Woody 

 Cape, which bore due eaft of us. After doubling the cape, 



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