1834.] works in Arabic, by Sidi AU Capuddn. 553 



jirdian year, and lasts till to the 80th; that is, from the 280th to the 310th 

 of the Jalalian year (25th Dec. — 25th Jan.) ; but for sailing to the continent 

 of Alinat C? Barronat) and the island of Ceylon, it sets in about the 100th 

 day of the Yazdajirdian, equal to 330th Jalalian (13th Feb.) 



41. The monsoon for sailing from Malacca to Jedda, Aden, Hormuz, 

 blows from about the 50th day of the Yazd. year, to about the 100th ; that is 

 to say, from about the 280th day till to the 330th Jal. (25th Dec— 13th Feb.) 



42. The monsoon from Tanassari and Martaban, to Jedda, Aden, and 

 Hormuz, blows like that for Bengal and Malacca. 



43. The monsoon from Shomotora to Jedda, Aden, Hormiiz, blows from 

 about the 30th day of the Yazdajirdian year, till to the 90th ; that is to say, 

 from the 260th to the 320th of the Jalalian year (5th Dec. — 3rd Feb.) 



44. The monsoon for sailing from Shomotora to Bengal, blows from 

 about 100th to 150th day of the Yazdajirdian year ; that is to say, from 

 the 330th till to the 15th of the next Jalalian year (13th Feb. — 4th April). 



45. The monsoon of Tanassari is the same with that of Bengal. 



46. The monsoon of Jazreddib to Aden and the whole Arabian continent, 

 blows from the 10th to about the 120th day of the Yazd. year ; that is, from 

 the 240th till about the 350th day of the Jalalian year (5th Nov. — 5th Mar.) 



47. The monsoon of Diul Sind, for sailing from thence to the Arabian 

 continent, blows from the 10th of the Yazdajirdian year to about the 120th ; 

 that is, from the 240th to about the 350th of the Jalalian (ditto). 



48. The monsoon of Melandi to Jazrul Kamr, (island of the moon*,) 

 blowsjfrom about the 80th to the 100th of the Yazdajirdian year; that is, 

 from the 310th to the 330th of the Jalalian (24th Jan. — 13th Feb.) 



49. The monsoon of Kilui for sailing to Sofalaf, blows from the 10th 

 to the 60th of the Yazdajirdian, that is, from the 240th to the 290th of the 

 Jalalian year (15th Nov, — 4th Jan.) 



50. The monsoon from Sofala to Kilut, blows from about the 160th to 

 the 190th of the Yazdajirdian year; that is to say, from the 25th to the 55th 

 Jal. (14th April— 1 4th May.) The finest lasts till about the 170th Yazd. 

 35th Jal. (24th April.) 



The dates of these monsoons are given according to the dates of the 

 year in which this book was written in, and are ten days later then those 

 given by the master Suleiman Ben Ahmad, the author of the Omdat (column). 

 If the calculation is made in the Yazdajirdian years, it is necessary to take 

 into account the intercalary years ; but in the calculation of Jalalian years, 

 the same order may be always followed up. 



The truth of these statements, and the error of the calculation (as it 



is impossible to guess anywhere else, but on the spot, which of the 



C two numbers may be the right or false one), are only to be elucidated 



in India itself, and are referred therefore by the translator to the learned 



members of the Asiatic Societies of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras. 



[We have added to the above the English dates for the present year, making the 

 JaUili year begin on the 21st March, with the vernal equinox. — Ed.] 



* Madagascar. t On the coast of Africa. 



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