3 o6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



Farenteit*, or worm, is very frequent here. They have- 

 great abundance of excellent fifh, and fruit in plenty, which 

 is brought from the mountains, whence alfo they are fup- 

 plied with very good water, 



The 17th, in the evening, we failed from Djezan; in the 

 night we pafled feveral fmall villages called Dueime y which 

 I found to be in lat. 16 12' 5" north. In the morning, be- 

 ing three miles diflant from the more, we paiTed Cape Got 

 ferah, which forms the north fide of a large Gulf. The 

 mountains here are at no great diftance, but they are not 

 high. The whole country feems perfectly bare and defert, 

 without inhabitants. It is reported to be the mofl un whole- 

 fome part of Arabia Felix. 



On the 18th, at feven in the morning, we firft difcovered 

 the mountains, under which lies the town of Loheia. Thefe 

 mountains bore north north-eaft of us, when anchored in 

 three- fathom water, about five miles from the fhore. The 

 bay is fo fhallow, and the tide being at ebb, we could get 

 no nearer ; the town bore eaft north-eaft of us. Loheia is 

 built upon the fouth-weft fide of a peninfula, furrounded 

 every where, but on the eaft, by the fea. In the middle of 

 this neck there is a fmall mountain which ferves for a for- 

 trefs, and there are towers with cannon, which reach acrofs 

 on each fide of the hill to the more. Beyond this is a plain 9 

 where the Arabs intending to attack the town, generally 

 aflemble. The ground upon which Loheia Hands is black 



earth, 



*'It figaifies Pharaoh's warm. 



