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jufl before him, and faid, Eh owah Azab Tybe, ftill with a 

 reprefentation of drinking. 



I debated with myfelf, whether I mould not take this 

 favage prifoner. He had three fhort javelins in his hand, 

 and was mounted upon a camel. I was on foot, and above 

 the ancles in fand, with only two piftols, which, whether 

 they would terrify him to furrender or not, I did not know ; 

 I mould, otherwife, have been obliged to have mot him, 

 and this I did not intend. After having invited him as cour- 

 teoufly as I could, to the boat, I walked towards it my- 

 felf, and, in the way, took up my firelock, which was ly- 

 ing hid among the fand. I faw he did not follow me a flep, 

 but when I had taken the gun from the ground, he fet off 

 at a trot as fail as he could, to the weflward, and we prefent- 

 ly loll him among the trees, 



I returned to the boat, and then to dinner on the ifland, 

 which we named Traitor's Iiland, from the fufpicious beha- 

 viour of that only man we had feen near it. This excuriion 

 loft me the time of making my obfervation ; all the ufe I 

 made of it was to gather fomc flicks and camel's dung, 

 which I heaped up, and made the men carry to the boat, to 

 ferve us for firing, if we mould be detained. The wind was 

 very fair, and we got under weigh by two o'clock. 



About four we palled a rocky ifland with breakers on its 

 fouth end, we left it about a mile to the windward of us. 

 The Rais called it Crab-ifland. About five o'clock we came 

 to an anchor clofe to a cape of no height, in a fmall bay, 

 in three fathom of water, and leaving a fmall ifland jufl oil 

 our ilern. We had not anchored here above ten minutes, 



before 



