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wind favourable, you fall in with a great number of low - 

 imail iilands, where there is danger. At ten o'clock, with 

 the wind fair, our -comic altnoft north-eaft, we palled three 

 rocky iilands about a mile on our left. 



On the 2d, at fun-rife, we faw land a-head, which we 

 took to be the Main, but, upon nearer approach, and the day 

 becoming clearer, we found two low iilands to the leeward ; 

 one of which we fetched with great difficulty. We found- 

 there the ftock of an old acacia-tree, and two or three bundles 

 of wreck, or rotten fticks, which we gathered with great 

 care ; and all of us agreed, we would eat breakfaft, dinner, 

 and fupper hot, inftead of the cold repafl we had made up- 

 on the drammock in the Straits. We now made fevcral 

 large fires ; one took the charge of the coffee, another boil- 

 ed the rice; we killed four turtles, made ready a dolphin ; 

 got beer, wine, and brandy, and drank the King's health in 

 earneft, which our regimen would not allow us to do in 

 the Straits of Babelmandeb. While this good chear was 

 preparing, I faw with my glafs, firft one man running along 

 the coaft weftward, who did not ftop ; about a. quarter of an 

 hour after, another upon a camel, walking at the ordinary 

 pace, who difmounted juft oppofite to us, and, as I thought, 

 kneeled down to fay his prayers upon the fand. We had 

 launched our boat immediately upon feeing the trunk of 

 the tree on the ifland; fo we were ready, and I ordered two 

 of the men to row me on fhore, which they did. 



It is a bay of but ordinary depth, with ftraggling trees, 

 and fome flat ground along the coaft. Immediately behind 

 is a row of mountains of a brownifh or black colour. The 

 man remained modonlefs, fitting on the ground, till the 



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