1836.] a Turkish work on Navigation. 467 



you, your way lies N. N. W. When you approach this island, side to 

 the sea, because its southern cape is rikk 1 , that is to say, a shallow, and 

 the colour of the water grows white ; meanwhile, on the sea side it is 

 seen green. Hold that course, and you'll find better soundings by degrees 

 till you come to 17 and 18 fathoms. Coming to this place you find the 

 water again whitish, these shallows are on the south side oiFesht Giiri- 

 an, which is a desert place : here the sea is noisy, don't keep either too 

 near to the island of Zenjilia, nor too far from it, but steer a middle 

 course; if the soundings give 18 fathoms or near it, you have passed 

 Zenjilia ; then you go in the direction of the north pole, and continue 

 to take soundings till you come to seven fathoms ; from thence you steer 

 in the direction of the north pole, and to the rising place of the $ and y 

 of the little bear, till your soundings are six fathoms but not less. So 

 you come to cape Khur* which is Shdtijam. Here you stop till 

 the rebbdn 2 (tide) come, with which you enter the port. Bengal is 

 abundant in ivory and ebony ; the finest muslin turbans, the very 

 best jutdr 3 -\, and most precious Indian stuffs come from thence ; the 

 finest muslin sashes are called malmaV', and the most precious of them 

 malmali-shdhi, which by confusion is generally named marmare-shdhi 

 (royal marble) ; there are also sea-bulls 5 , the best of them are found 

 between Bengal and Delhi in the interior lake ; they are called sea 

 bulls, although they don't live in the sea, but in the interior lakes on the 

 land ; but the merchants call them so ; for in the interior northern 

 lakes, in the mountains of the Afghans, are also found the rhinoceros 

 fKarkaddn 6 , the name quite the same as the Krokotos of Ctesias), but 

 their horns are but two palms long ; it is related that those which are 

 found in Abyssinia have much longer horns. Girafes are found but 

 in Abyssinia and never in India. 



Twenty-ninth Voyage, from Malacca to Aden. 

 Starting from Malacca you go first along the coast till to the moun- 

 tain Foldpdsaldr 1 ; there you take care of the above-mentioned 

 bank 8 . This mountain is seen in the direction E. by S., and on some 

 distance you see Foludjomar 9 ; after having left it behind you your 

 direction is that of the north pole till you come to the islands Falusan- 

 bilen\, from thence you steer for some time N. N. W. till you come 

 to the islands Firak i0 § and Yaflubotof"\\, from thence W. by N. till to 

 the island Ndjban v \ from thence W. by S. till the farkadain (3 



* Oj 2 Ji) 3 >V 4 J*A* 5 U -^/ * J-tSjS ' JUbjU 



• w*S 9 j«^ls ,0 t— Sjxs " v^Juj^liL; l2 ujUa^U (Nicobars) 



* The word Kh&r used here and elsewhere seems a corruption of the Bengali 

 term khdl, creek or estuary. f Choutar, a fine cloth, so 



called from its four threads. J Pulo Sambelan of the Straits. 



§ Probably Pera on the Malay peninsula, or Penang? || Pulo Bouton. 



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