1837.] a Turkish work on Navigation. 807 



towards the south, particularly with great ships and if you are sailing 

 for Maskdt and Hormuz. 



5. If on the days on which the wind is blowing at kawas 1 ** the 

 cape Yabas 1 * and cape Sdrek 11 are at handf, guard against passing 

 to the Arabic coast because it is impossible to make after it any other 

 land but the coast of Mekrdn. 



6. If you wish to reach Malacca guard against seeing Jamas 

 feleh 18 because the mountains Jebdl Ldmeri 19 l advance into the sea, 



and the flood is there very strong. 



7. Be on your guard against seeing on the 90th (25th Jan.) or 200th 

 (15th May) day of the Yazd. 55 or 65 Jul. year from Gujerdt, Fur- 

 midn 20 and its districts exist Somenat and Gulindr 21 § ; in seeing the 

 last there is no harm. 



8. Be on your guard against being neglectful during the course 

 in the sea of Kolzum\\, that is to say, in the Arabic gulph, which is 

 that of Hejdz and Jedda, because the two shores are very near. 



9. Be on your guard against neglect in vicinity of the shore ; 

 generally you must be on your guard against seeing coasts of any de- 

 scription. 



10. Take care to muster on each voyage all your instruments and 

 stores, be it masts, rudders, yards : if the wind be strong shorten your 

 sails, particularly at night, if the sky be clouded, windy, rainy ; be on 

 your guard against incurring damage. 



Besides these ten Mahzurdt™, that is, things to be guarded against 

 or to be taken care of, there are also some others which seafaring people 

 must pay attention to. Firat the circle of the constellation 23 Neja?n 

 ez-zauji, which the Indians call, the constellation of the Jogni, and 

 which by the astronomers of India, China, Turkistdn and Kiptshak is 



19 wiy>J4-> 2 V*V V j J^ 22 o^ >s - - ^>W 



* By kawas or kaus, is generally understood south, perhaps the south-west 

 monsoon. — Ed. 



t Rasul yabas is one of the projecting headlands south of Ras ul 7iad, whence 

 the monsoon would easily take a vessel across to the Mukr&n coast. It is called 

 Jibsh in Horsburgh (I. 314). Rasul Sdrek is perhaps another of the promonto- 

 ries here— the nearest in name is Ras ul Sair farther down the coast near Djobar. 



X J&mas, feleh must be the Pulo Anzas or Mudancoos of Horsburgh, two 

 islands lying on the verge of a shoal dangerous of approach on the Malacca coast, 

 where Pulo Loomant (the Lameri of our author) stretches out beneath Parcelar 

 hill. The set of the flood tide here is particularly noticed by the Indian marine 

 surveyors. — Directory, II. 226. 



§ Meeanee, Somndth and Koureenar (or Girnar ?) of the maps. 



H Kulzum signifies the great ocean, but it is applied here to the Red Sea. 

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