204 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



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CHAP. IX 



Voyage to jfibbel Zumrud — Return to Cojfeir— Sails fram CoJJeir——yaf~ 

 fateen IJlands-—. Arrive at 'Tor. 



TH E Turks and the Bey departed, and with the Turks 

 I difpatched my Arab, Abdel Gin, not only giving him 

 fomething myfelf, but recommending him to my beneficent 

 countrymen at Jidda, if he mould go there. 



I now took up my quarters in the caftle, and as the Ab- 

 abde had told Arrange ftories about the Mountain of Eme- 

 ralds, I determined, till my captain mould return, to make a 

 voyage thither. There was no poffibility of knowing the 

 diftance by report; fometimes it was twenty-five miles, fome- 

 times it was fifty, fometimes it was a hundred, and God 

 knows how much more. 



I chose a man who had been twice at thefe mountains 

 of emeralds ; with the beft boat then in the harbour, and 

 on Tuefday the 14th of March, we failed, with the wind at 

 North Eaft, from the harbour of CofTeir, about an hour be- 

 fore the dawn of day. We kept coafting along, with a very 

 moderate wind, much diverted with the red and green ap- 

 pearances 



