56 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



There are no fparrows to be feen here, or on the oppose 

 fhore, nor in the iilands. Although there were fcorpions in 

 abundance at Loheia, we found none of them at Mafuah. 

 Water and greens, efpecially of the melon and cucumber 

 kind, feem to be neceffary to this poifonous infect. Indeed 

 it was only after rains we law them in Loheia, and then the 

 young ones appeared in fvvarms ; this was in the end of 

 Aug-uft. They are of a dull green colour, bordering upon 

 yellow. As far as I could obferve, no perfon apprehended 

 any thing from their fling beyond a few minutes pain. 



We left Mafuah the ioth of November, with the foldicrs 

 and boats belonging to Achmet. We had likewife three 

 fervants from Abyflinia, and no longer apprehended the 

 Naybe, who feemed, on his part, to think no more of us. 



In the bay between Mafuah and Arkeeko are two iflands, 

 Toulahout and Shekh Seide ; the firft on the weft, the other 

 on the fouth. They are both uninhabited, and without 

 water. Shekh Seide has a marabout, or faint's tomb, on the 

 weft end. It is not half a mile in length, when not over- 

 flowed, but has two large points of land which run far out 

 to the eaft and to the weft. Its weft point runs fo near to 

 Toulahout, as, at low- water, fcarce to leave a channel for 

 the breadth of a boat to pafs between. 



There is a chart, or map of the ifland of Mafuah, hand- 

 ed about with other bad maps and charts of the Red Sea, 

 (of which I have already fpoken) among our Englifh cap- 

 tains from India. It feems to be of as old date as the firft 

 landing of the Pomiguefe under Don Roderigo dc Lima, in 

 the time of David 111. but it is very inaccurate, or rather er- 

 roneous, 



