3o6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Farenteit *, or worm, is very frequent here. They have 

 great abundance of excellent fifh, and fruit in plenty, which 

 is brought from the mountains, whence alfo they are fup- 

 plied with very good water, 



The 17th, in the evening, we failed from Djezan; in the 

 night we paffed feveral fmall villages called Dueime, which 

 I found to be in lat. 16 12' 5" north. In the morning, be- 

 ing three miles diflant from the more, we palled Cape Cof- 

 ferah, which forms the north fide of a large Gulf. The- 

 mountains here are at no great diftance, but they are not . 

 high. The whole country feems perfectly bare and defert, 

 without inhabitants. It is reported to be the moft unwhole- 

 fome part of Arabia Felix. 



On the iSth, at feven in the morning, we firft difcovered 

 the mountains, under which lies the town of Loheia. Thefe 

 mountains bore north north-ealt of us, when anchored in 

 three- fathom water, about five miles from the more. The 

 bay is fo fhallow, and the tide being at ebb, we could get 

 no nearer ; the town bore eaft north-eaft of us. Loheia is 

 built upon the fouth-weft fide of a peninfula, furrounded 

 every where, but on the eaft, by the fea. In the middle of 

 this neck there is a fmall mountain which ferves for a for- 

 trefs, and there are towers with cannon, which reach acrofs 

 on each fide of the hill to the more. Beyond this is a plain, 

 where the Arabs intending to attack the town, generally 

 affemble. The ground upon which Loheia Hands is black 



earth, 



* It figiu&s Pharaoh's worm. 



