DAH 
ae faid to jai a harbour for thieves and pirates; 12 miles 
of Cair 
bowed down before the holy ark. See eg 
DAGSBOROUGH, a poft-town erica, in the 
county of Suffex and ftate of Delaware, ftusted on the 
N. W, ba ok of se s tes a branc Indian river, 
: 19 miles fom Broad-hill or 
and adhere to each other by the fides. They have been de- 
{cribed by fome writers under the name of Carcinum opali- 
num; and -by others are confidered as appertaining to the 
Salpa genus elinian fyfte a genus 
y sage nayant, angular, tabu- 
and open d the fpecies which is 
named ae as ie the ee marked at one end with 
a brown fpot. 
DALE, in Ancient Geography, a people who inhabited 
the tele itd lying to the eaft of the Euxine fea and of the 
wotides, according to StThes who claffes them 
among the Scythian Nomu are sea y 
Virgil, and acer ed as the « Tadomi a e .? Servius 
Se ee ) fays that they extended to the ccalcn part of 
“‘DAHALAC or Danuta, in Geography, the largett 
ifland in the Red — near the coaft of Abyfiinia. Its whole 
length from N. W . E. is 37 miles, and its greateft 
breadth 18. It is low a even, the foil of it is ones Se 
and white fand, mixed with hells and other marine produc 
tions. In fummer itis deftitute of all forts o ieee, exept 
a {mall quantity of bent gr d the few a 
t-haired, with thin 
fharp aie hav ving rings u 
‘This idand is in many Se covered with large plantations 
: although it is in the neighbourhood of 
Abyfiinia, it does not partake of its feafons; no rains falls 
here from the end of March till the beginning of OGober ; 
but in the a mozths,, e ree a Ja- 
for the enfuing fummer 
tains, and coniequently 2 no Caos: 
ferving water, there are 370, all hewn out of the folid rock. 
they are the works.of the Perfians 3. but 
were more probably con- 
eee the fall of rains, the 
rm : 
Of thefe cifterns for pre- 
DAH 
goats that fupply the inhabitants with milk, the chief ar- 
ticle of their fubfiftence i in winter, for they neuhee plough 
‘The women are very caer anta ex i 
ferable people, who live in the villages not frequented = 
barks from bs, iatia joneume for a whole year with- 
ut tafting bread: and yet fuch is their attachment to their 
native ae a ce oe this barren and parched {pot, def 
titute of al all neceflaries, baie! {uch as are moft 
effential, bread and water, to thofe pleafant and plentiful. 
counties that lie on both fides of them. People of the 
better fort = a brown complexion, but thofe of the 
common fort, who are employed in fihing, are of a red 
difh hue, kt darker than the colour 
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ee no kind of hottile weapon. ‘The ifland is falubrious, 
and yet none ~ al inhabitants im to attain an age o 
more than 60 
The (ane cape of this ifland, called ** Ras Shonke,’’ 
which in Arabic fignities the Cape of Thorns, eae it has 
upon it a number of | isin N, lat a5! 50" § 
and the northern cape, or ‘* ntalou,” is i in i lat. 15° 
» 54°; 30"; the longitude of ate. ifland is 39° 20’ E. The 
wis of a circular form, and eae jute 
defended from all winds, but its entrance is too narrow, 
and within it is full of rocke, confifting of ramification of 
white coral intermixed with large black fton ré 
miles S. W. of the harbour is the village, called Dobelew, 
counting of about 80 houfes, built, of eer ftone, 
Pale from the fea, and covered with bent gra The 
fouth-weft extremity of the village is in N. lat. ah a2! ae 
Irwee, a {maller villages say at the diftance of about four 
miles from Dobelew, a s fituated in the centre of the 
ifland. In Dahalac ee are 12 villages or towns, little dif-. 
trent in fize from 3 eac antation of 
gloffy hie, which may be eafily miftaken. for fattin; and 
of thefe are made bafkets, that are very neat and beautiful, 
and fo well las aed that they will contain water for 24... 
hours without leaki 
firman from the ced Gece 6 on th afha of Jidda, and, 
oe im on — Aga, then on the Naybe, and his fere- 
va revenue of the governor confif a t 
en to ie monthly by each of the 12 villages. Every- 
veflel, that puts in there from Mafuah, pays him alfo a 
pound of coffee ; and every one fom Arabia, a dollar or 
pataka. No fort of {mall money is current at Dalahac, 
except Venetian glafs- ana old and new, of all fizes and: 
colours, broken a nd whole 
on the north; and the bafha of Mafuah paffed part of every: 
mmer here, to avoid the heat at his place of refidence on. 
the continent, ‘The fifhery extended from Dahalac 7 its 
iflands. 
