1836.] a Turkish work on Navigation. 459 



N. E. by E. ; then N. E. to Marbdth* and Mottiika 2 , (this last is 

 called Janjari 3 ,) from thence you follow again the direction N. E. 

 by E. taking care on your way of the island Hausakexja** , because on 

 its sea- shore is a shallow ; it is necessary to come forth between 

 Siikara 5 and the islands Khilr 6 or Muria 7 f. After having found 

 Siikara you sail five zdms N. E. by E. then three zcims N. E., from 

 thence five N. E. by N. to Mousir*\ you may see it or not ; if you 

 see it, you follow the same way till the island is left behind : from 

 thence four sdms to N. N. E. from whence you return to N. by E. 

 till Rasolhadd 9 ; from Rasolhadd you direct yourselves to the known 

 Dairai Barr 10 till Rds Mosandem u §, from thence to the pole to Hormiiz. 

 The pearls for which Hormiiz is famous are fished on the islands of 

 Kais u \\ and Bahrain 13 . If you wish to go from Rasolhadd to Dulsind 1 *^ 

 you steer E. N. E. till you come to Pasani 15 or near it ; from thence 

 to Dairai Barr 16 , that is to say, E. by S. till Rds Kardshi 11 **, where 

 you come to an anchor, waiting for the fishing boats with which you 

 enter the port. The ancient pilots used to sail from Cape Alhadd 

 to that of Kardshi in the direction E. by N. but it is better to go 

 with the higher wind. 



Sixteenth Voyage, from Diu to Meshkdss™\\ . 

 The time for this voyage is from the tenth day after the Yazdajer- 

 dian Nawruz to the 60th day (7th Nov. — 27th Dec.) which is to say, 

 from the 240th day after the Jelalian Nawruz to the 290th. First 

 you follow the direction W. by S. two Terfa 19 , that is to say, two 

 inches, which make the poles eight inchesJJ ; from thence to W. S. W. 

 one Terfa ; if it is the time to measure the pole (to take the height 

 by the polar star) you take it : if it not be the time for it§§ you 

 take the height at the setting of Aquila 20 \\ || by the Lyra 21 which gives 



1 \s\ij* 2 tijllsO 3 (CyS^T"- * <UA<- 



1 5 «■ 6 Ml 



a j^« 9 Osr'l^J, ,0 j>Sji* 



ii , ; t ' 2 " 



" e^** l \^~J>^ n ^H 



16 * t IT 1 < \ 



18 ( S ••> IB , • " 20 "I • 21 it 



* Hasek of maps. f Curia Muria. J Mazeira island. 



§ Cape Mussendan, at the entrance of the Persian Gulph. || Kishma ? 



11 Mouths of Indus. ** Kurachee on the northernmost mouth, 



ft Maculla? or a place nearer Morebat? J+ Lat. 18 18'. 



§§ This sentence proves that the meridional passage of Polaris was usually 

 observed. 



Illl The Arabic name of the star here translated Aquila by the Baron enables 

 us to clear up the difficulty in former passages. In the description of the Arabic 



celestial globe by Dr. Dorn (Roy. As. Soc. Trans. II. 381, the star {^jfij^^ 

 (the falling vulture) is shown to be alpha lyra>, or wega of the Alphonsine tables. 

 The translation in the text, therefore, should be—" take the height of Polaris 

 at the setting of wega (in lyra), i. e. of alpha lyrse. 

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