[ 86 ] 



came on board, he declared that he heard the two 

 guns that morning at fun-rifmg, upon the ftrength 

 cf which, he took his boat and put off. 



To fail into Judda harbour, or rather road, without 

 a pilot, would be impoffible for a ftranger, there being 

 fo many fand-banks and fhelves of rocks ; but when 

 you are in, it is one of the fafeft places that can 

 poffibly be ; you may make your mip fafl with any 

 old junk, and there is no danger, though you are 

 furrounded with nothing but rocks and fands. 



The beft bearing for anchoring is the great Mofque 

 E. by S. and the extremes of the land from S. by E. 

 to N. N. W. diftance from the landing-place about 

 two miles.* 



Latitude of Judda 



/ // 



21 28 N. 



Longitude Ditto 



39 2 6 45 E. 



Variation of the compafs 



11 52 W. 



I left Judda the 30th of July 1769, and pafled 

 by the grap fhoals (lying in the latitude of 21° 

 20' N.) at about a mile's diftance, from which 

 I took my departure and made my courfe the firft 

 day S. 24 W. dift. 56 miles; the fecond day, S. I5°E. 

 dift. 100 miles. On the third day about 6 o'clock 

 in the afternoon I faw a very high land on the Ethi- 

 opian more (about the latitude of 18° 38' N.) and 

 fome fmall iflands a little to the Northward of it; the 

 high land bore about W. N. W. and the fmall iflands 

 N. W. dift. from the high land about 10 leagues; 

 .we had then run from the Grab fhoal 195 miles. 



From 



