1836.] a Turkish work on Navigation. 463 



are near Ghebba is, that the water grows yellow ; as soon as you see 

 signs of land being near you must be in guard against it, till Madreka 1 

 or Massira 2 *. If the pole is ten inches and a half, and land is not 

 in sight, and no signs are seen ; you have passed the Arabian shore, 

 and then you have no chance but to steer for the Indian continent. 

 You follow the direction E. by S. till the pole is ten inches to Man- 

 galor[ or Soomdndt\ or Shurowaur 3 and Gulinaur* ; but take care not to 

 bring the pole to ten inches and a half, (22° 18') in which case you 

 necessarily come to Jaked 5 § which is your damage and repentance too 

 late. God be your guide ! What is said of Indian whirlpools is all a tale, 

 except the whirlpools in the gulph of Jaked, and in the Barbarian channel 

 near Kardafun, where ships falling in are unavoidably lost ; the causes 

 of it are the heavy waves, the strong winds, the currents and the 

 breakers of the coast, so that it is impossible for the ship either to 

 hold the sea or to land on the shore, if God does not grant his parti- 

 cular grace. If you guess that you may be drifting to Jaked you 

 must take before hand your precautions and endeavour to reach from 

 the coast of Makrdn either the port of Kalmata 6 or Kawdder 7 , or 

 Kapchi Makrun 8 ; Bandar Kawauder\\, is the place where cocoanuts 

 grow ; or you must try to go to Karaushi^ or to enter Khurdidl Sind 9 ; 

 that is to say, the port of Lahore, to get rid of the fear of Jaked. In 

 Sind are a great number of liver- eaters, against whom you must be on 

 your care ; because if they meet a man who eats his dinner in public, 

 they have the talent of eating up his liver with their eyes, and so 

 kill him. This is not to be slighted. 



Twenty- second VoYAGE,/rom Cambeya to Aden at the end of the season. 

 Cambeya is the district in the province of Gujerdt, comprehending 

 the ports of Ahmedabad ano Patan ; from thence comes the cotton of 

 Patan ; and Bahdder and some Indian stuffs. In this country is a 

 profusion of Babaghtiri 10 and cornelians : but the best of the last 

 are those coming from Yaman. If you set out from Cambeya and 

 come to Did or its district, you must sail at night, because at the end 

 of the season the wind blows from the west during the day, but dur- 

 ing the night from the shore ; with this land breeze you go as far you 

 can towards the south. In some years the wind is a strong north 

 western in the place of the Maurara (sea-snakes), then your course is 



* Mazeira. t Mungrole, 21° 30'. 



X Somnath, Choorwaur, and Cooleynorky Pagoda. 



§ Point Gigat, or Juggut, at the south-west corner of the Gulf of Kutch. 



|| One of the three Bunders on the coast of Gujer&t. % Korachee. 



