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and there to flay till the fouth-eafter relieves her in Novem- 

 ber. After you double Gardefan, the fummer monibon, 

 at north-caft, is carrying your veffel full fail to Sofala, when 

 the anomalous monfoon takes her off the coaft of Melinda, 

 and forces her into Tarfhifh, where fhe is imprifoncd for fix 

 months in the Mocha there. So that this word is very em- 

 phatically applied to thofe places where mips are neceflarily 

 detained by the change of monfoons, and proves the truth 

 of what I have faid. . 



The laft Cape on the Abyffinian more, before you run 

 into the Straits, is Cape Defan, called by the Portuguefe, 

 Cape Dafui. This has no meaning in any language ; the 

 Abyflinians, on whofe fide it is, call it Cape Dcfo.ti, the Cape 

 of Burial. It was probably there where the carl wind drove 

 afhore the bodies of fuch as had been fhipwrecked in the 

 voyage. The point of the fame coaft, which. ftretches out 

 into the Gulf, before you arrive at Ba-belmandeb, was, by 

 the Romans, c&Ued'Promoriterium^lr&natum, and -mice, by the 

 Portuguefe, Cape Gardeful. But the name given it by the 

 Abyflinians and failors on the Gulf is, Cape Gardefan, the 

 Straits of Burial. . 



Still nearer the Straits is a fmall port in the kingdom 

 of Adel, called Mete, /. c. Death, or, he or they are dead. And 

 more to the weft ward, in the fame kingdom, is Mount Felix, 

 corruptly fo called by the Portuguefe. The Latins call it 

 Elephas Mons, the Mountain of the Elephant; and the na- 

 tives, jibbel Feel, which has the fame fignification. The Por- 

 tuguefe, who did not. know that Jibbel Feel was Elephas 

 Mons, being milled by the found, have called it Jibbel Felix., 

 1 ippy Mountain, a name to which it has no fort of title. 



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