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fortunate as to get one before you come near Judda, 

 it would be moft certainly prudent to keep 30 or 40 

 miles from the fhore, at leaft fo far that you can 

 but juft difcern the high land of Goofs and Gedan, 

 at which diftance there is no danger. Although 

 this may appear a great diftance for the pilots to 

 come off to the {hip, yet they will immediately do 

 it as foon as they hear your gun, and not till then. 



It is indeed amazing, and almoft incredible to be told, 

 how far thefe pilots will hear the guns on aflill morning 

 or evening, which are theproper times for the guns to 

 be fired. Obferve to fire the firft as foon as you fee 

 the fun appear in the horizon, and thefecond as foon 

 as the lower limb is juft out of the water; in the 

 evening, the firft as foon as the lower limb touches 

 the water, and the fecond when the upper limb is 

 below the horizon.. Four firings in one day is all that 

 are neceffary ; but they are to be repeated every day 

 till you get a pilot. They know pretty near the time 

 the India fhips will arrive,, and go down to the water 

 fide every night and morning, and juft as the fun is 

 rifing or fetting, they lay their ear clofe to the ground 

 for three or four minutes,, and pretend to fay, that 

 if a fliip is not more than two or two and a half 

 degrees diftance when the gun is fired, they caa 

 either hear the report or find the ground fhake under 

 them; upon which they take a boat and come off to 

 pilot you in. This may feem a little extraordinary to- 

 a perfon that never was there; but,. however ftrange 

 it may appear, I was affured by a gentleman of un- 

 doubted veracity, that he run by the log 95 miles 

 from the time of firing his two guns in the morning, 

 till he faw the pilot in the evening; and when he 



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