«6i TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Derghiman Scguier, • 

 Derghiman Kibecr, ' ■ 

 Dahalhalem, - - 

 Noora, - -• - 



The tide now entered with an unufual force, and ran 

 more like the Nile, or a torrent, or ltream conducted to turn 

 a mill, than the fea, or the effects of a tide. At half pail 

 one o'clock, there. was water enough to pals, and we foon 

 were hurried through it by the violence, of the current* , 

 driving us in a manner truly tremendous. . 



At half after three, .we-pafled between Ras Antalou, the 

 North Cape of Dahalac, and the • fmall ifland Bahalottom, 

 which has fome trees upon it. . On this ifland is the tomb 

 of Shekh * Abou Gafar, mentioned by. Poncet, in his voy- 

 age, who miflakes the name of the faint for that of the ifland. 

 The ftrait between the Cape and the ifland is a mile and a 

 half broad. At four in the afternoon, .we anchored near a 

 a fmall ifland called Sural. All between this and Dahalac,- 

 there is no water exceeding feven fathom, till you are near 

 Dahalac Kibeer, whole port has water for large veffcls, 

 but is open to every point, from fouth-wefl to north-weft,; , 

 and has a great fwell. 



All mips coming to the weftward of Dahalac had better, 

 keep within the ifland Drugerut, between that and the 

 main, where there is plenty of water, and room enough to 



work. 



* Joncet's Voyage, tranflated into Englifh, printed for W. Lewis in 1 709, in 1 zmo, page 



121. 



