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rained at times in the mountains here, for we were now 

 confiderably within the tropic, which panes very sea: as 

 el Himma, whereas Rabac is half a degree to the fouth- 

 ward. 



On the 2d, at five o'clock in the morning, we failed from 

 Rabac, with a very little wind, fcarcely making two knots 

 an hour. 



At half pall nine, Deneb bore eafl and by fouth from us. 

 This place is known by a few palm-trees. The port is 

 fmall, and very indifferent, at leafl for fix months of the 

 year, becaufe it lies open to the fouth, and there is a pro- 

 digious fwell here. 



At one o'clock we pafifed an ifland called Hammel, a- 

 bout a mile off; at the fame time, another ifland, El Me- 

 mifk, bore eafl of us, about three miles, where there is good 

 anchorage. 



At three and three quarters, we pafTed an ifland called 

 Gawad, a mile and a quarter fouth-eafl of us. The main 

 bore likewife fouth-eafl, diflant fomething more than a 

 league. We here changed our courfe from fouth to W. S. W. 

 and at four o'clock came to an anchor at the fmall ifland of 

 Lajack. 



The 3d, we failed at half pafl four in the morning, our 

 courfe W. S. W. but it fell calm ; after having made about a 

 league, we found ourfelves off Ras Hateba, or the Woody 

 Cape, which bore due eafl of us. After doubling the cape, 



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