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AVe caught a great quantity of fine fiih this night with 

 a line, fome of them weighing 14 pounds. The befl were 

 blue in the back, like a falmon, but their belly red, and 

 marked with blue round fpots. They refembled a falmon 

 in fhape, but the fifli was white, and not fo firm. 



In the morning of the 6th we made the Jaffateen Iflands. 

 They are four in number, joined by fhoals and funken rocks. 

 They are crooked, or bent, like half a bow, and are danger- 

 ous for fhips failing in the night, becaufe there feems to 

 be a paffage between them, to which, when pilots are at- 

 tending, they neglect two fmall dangerous funk rocks, that 

 lie almoft in the middle of the entrance, in deep water. 



I understood, afterward s, from the Rais, that, had it not 

 heen from fome marks he faw of blowing weather, he 

 would not have come in to the Jaffateen Iflands, but flood 

 directly for Tor, running between the iiland Sheduan, and 

 a rock which is in the middle of the channel, after you pafs 

 Ras Mahomet. But we lay fo perfectly quiet, the whole 

 night, that we could not but be grateful to the Rais for his 

 care, although we had feen no apparent reafon for it. 



Next morning, the 7th, we 'left our very quiet birth in 

 the bay, and ftood clofe, nearly fouth-eaft, along-fide of the 

 two fouthermoft Jaffateen Iflands, our head upon the center 

 of Sheduan, till we had cleared the eaftermofc of thofe 

 iflands about three miles. Wc then paffed Sheduan, leaving 

 it to tbc eaflward about three leagues, and keeping nearly 

 a N. N. W. courfc, to range the well fide of Jibbel Zeit. This 

 is a large defert iiland, or rock, that is about four miles 

 from the main. 



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