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Till that time, I would advife every man failing in the 

 Red Sea, efpecially in the channel, where the pilots know 

 no more than he, to trail to his own hands for fafety in the 

 minute of danger, to heave the lead at leaft every hour, 

 keep a good look-out, and ihorten fail in a freih wind, or in 

 the night-time, and to confider all maps of the channel of 

 the Arabian Gulf, yet made, as matters of mere curiofity, 

 and not fit to trail a man's life to. Any captain in the India 

 fervice, who had run over from Jidda into the mouth of 

 the river Frat, and the neighbouring port Kilnt, which 

 might every year be done for L. 10 Sterling extra expences, 

 would do more meritorious fervice to the navigation of that 

 iea, than all the foundings that were ever yet made from Jib- 

 Del Zekir to the ifland of Sheduan, . 



From Yambo to Jidda I had flept little, making my me- 

 moranda as full upon the fpot as poiTible. I had, befides, 

 an aguifh diforder, which very much troubled me, and in 

 drefs and cieanlinefs was fo like a Galiongy (or Turkifh fea- 

 man) that the* Emir Bahar was ailonifhed at hearing .my 

 fervants fay I was an Englifhman, at the time they carried 

 away all my baggage and inilruments to the cuflom-houfe. 

 He fent his fervant, however, with .me to the Bengal- houfe, 

 who promifed me, in broken Englilfi, all the way, a very 

 magnificent reception from my countrymen, Upon his 

 naming all the captains for my choice, I defircd to be car- 

 ried to a Scotchman, a relation of my own, who was. then acci- 

 dentally leaning over the rail of the ilahs-cafe, leading up 



to 



Captain of the port, ■ 



