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ftant the Turks were removed on the other fide of the Hel- 

 lefpont. 



There are neither horfes, dogs, fheep, cows, nor any fort 

 of quadruped, but goats, affes, a few half-flarved camels 

 and antelopes at Dahalac, which laft are very numerous. 

 The inhabitants have no knowledge of fire-arms, and there 

 are no dogs, nor beads of prey in the ifland to kill them ;. 

 they catch indeed fome few of them in traps. 



On our arrival at Dahalac, on the 14th, we faw fwallows 

 there, and, on the 16th, they were all gone. On our land- 

 ing at Mafuah, on the 19th, we faw a few; the 21ft and 2 2d 

 they were in great flocks ; on the 2d of October they were 

 all gone. It was the blue long-tailed fwallow, with the flat 

 head ; but there was, likewifc, the Englifh martin, black, 

 and darkifh grey in the body, with a white breaft. 



The language at Dahalac is that of the Shepherds; Arabic 

 too is fpoken by moil: of them. From this ifland we fee 

 the high mountains of HubeJJj, running in an even ridge like 

 a wall, parallel to the coafl, and down to Suakem. 



Before I leave Dahalac, I mufl obferve, that, in a wretch- 

 ed chart, in the hands of fome of the Englifh gentlemen at 

 Jidda, there were foundings marked all along the eafl- 

 coafl of Dahalac, from thirteen to thirty fathoms, within 

 two leagues of the more. Now, the iflands I have men- 

 tioned occupy a much larger fpace than that ; yet none of 

 them are fet down in the chart ; and, where the foundings 

 are marked thirty, forty, and even ninety fathom, all is full 

 of fhoals under water, with iflands and funken coral rocks, 



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