3 i6 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER 



wind favourable, you fall in with a great number of low 

 fmall iilands, where there is danger. At ten o'clock, with 

 the wind fair, our eourfe almoft nortk-ealt, we palled three _- 

 rocky iilands about a mile on our left* 



On the 2d, at fun-rife^ we faw land a-head, which we 

 took to be the Main, but, upon nearer approach, and the day 

 becoming clearer, we found two low iilands to the leeward ;.... 

 one of which we fetched with great difficulty. We found 

 there the flock of an old acacia-tree, and two or three bundles 

 of wreck, or rotten flicks, which we gathered with great 

 care ; and all of us agreed, we would eat breakfaft, dinner, 

 and fupper hot, inftead of the cold repair we had made up- 

 on the drammock in the Straits. We now made feveral 

 large fires ; one took the charge of the coffee, another boil- 

 ed the rice; we killed four turtles, made ready a dolphin ; 

 got beer, wine, and brandy, and drank the King's health in 

 earneit, which our regimen would not allow us to do in 

 the Straits of Babelmandeb. While this good chear was 

 preparing, 1 faw with my glafs, firft one man running along 

 the coaft weftward, who did not flop ; about a quarter of an 

 hour after, another upon a camel, walking at the ordinary, 

 pace, who difmounted juft oppofite to us, and, as I thought,, 

 kneeled down to fay his prayers upon the fand. We had 

 launched our boat immediately upon feeing the trunk of. 

 the tree on the ifland; fo we were ready, and I ordered two, 

 of the men to row me on more, which they did. 



It is a bay of but ordinary depth, with flraggling trees,; 

 and fome flat ground along the coaft. Immediately behind 

 is a row of mountains of a brownifh or black colour. The 

 man remained motionlefs, fitting on the ground, till the 



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