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in the mountains, but would bring it to me if I would go 

 to the town. Providence, however, had dealt more kindly 

 with us in the moment than we expected. For, upon go- 

 ing afhore out of eagernefs to get the myrrh, I faw, not a 

 quarter of a mile from us, fitting among the trees, at leafl 

 thirty men, armed with javelins, who all got up the mo- 

 ment they faw me landed. I called to the boatmen to fet 

 the boat afloat, which they immediately did, and I got 

 quickly on board, near up to the middle in water ; but as 

 I went by the old man, I gave him fo violent a blow upon 

 the face with the thorny branch in my hand, that it felled 

 him to the ground. The boy fled, and we rowed off; but 

 before we took leave of thefe traitors, we gave them a dif- 

 charge of three blunderbufles loaded with piflol-fhot, in 

 the direction where, in all probability, they were lying to 

 fee the boat go off. 



I directed the Rais to Hand out towards Crab-ifland, 

 and there being a gentle breeze from the fhore, carrying 

 an eafv fail, we flood over upon Mocha town, to avoid fomc 

 rocks or iilands, which he faid were to the wcflward. 

 While lying at Crab-ifland, I obferved two flars pafs the 

 meridian, and by them I concluded the latitude of that 

 ifland to be if 2 '45" North. 



The wind continuing moderate, but more to the fouth- 

 ward, at three o'clock in the morning of the $d, we paffed 

 Jibbel el Ouree, then Jibbel Zekir; and having a fleady 

 gale, with fair and moderate weather, pafling to the wefl- 

 ward of the ifland Rafab, between that and fomc other 

 iilands to the north-eaft, where the wind turned contrary, 

 1 .' arrived at Lolieia, the 6th, in the morning, being the 



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