44* TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



. I take Tyrone to be the ifland of Safpirene of Ptolemy, 

 though this geographer has erred a little, both in its lati- 

 tude and longitude. 



.We paused the fecond of thefe iflands, called Senaffer, 

 about three leagues to the northward, fleering with a 

 frefh gale at fouth-eaft, upon a triangular ifland that has 

 three pointed eminences upon its fouth-fide. We pafled 

 another fmall ifland which has no name, about the fame 

 diflance as the former; and ranged along three black rocks> 

 the fouth-wefl of the ifland, called Sufange el Bahar, or the Sea- 

 Spunge. As our veflel made fome water, and the wind had been 

 very ftrong all the afternoon, the Rais wanted to bring up 

 to the leeward of this ifland, or between this, and a cape of 

 land called RasSelah; but, not being able to find foundings 

 here, he fet fail again, doubled the point, and came to an- 

 chor under the fouth cape of a fine bay, which is a ftation 

 of the Emir Hadje, called Kalaat el Moilab y the Caftle, or Sta- 

 tion of Water* 



We had failed this day about twenty-one leagues ; and, 

 as we had very fair and fine weather, and were under no 

 lort of concern whatever, I could not neglect attending to 

 the difpofition of thefe iflands, in a very fplendid map late- 

 ly publiflied. They are carried too far into the Gulf. 



The 13th, the Rais having, in the night, remedied what 

 was faulty in his vefTel, fet fail about feven o'clock in the 

 morning. We pafled a conical hill on the land, called 

 Abou Jubbe, where is the fepulchre of a faint of that name* 

 The mountains here are at a confiderable diflance ; and no- 

 thing can be more defolate and bare than the coafl. In 



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