THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. 5*7 



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chap. xnr. 



Sails for Majuah — Pajfes a Volcano — Comes to Dabalac-— Troubled with 

 a Ghojl— Arrives at Mafuah, 



AL L being prepared for our departure, we failed from- 

 Loheia on the $& of September 1769, but the wind 

 failing, we were obliged to warp the vefiel out upon her an- 

 chors. The harbour of Loheia, which is by much the largefl 

 in the Red Sea, is now fo fhallow, and choked up, that, 

 unlefs by a narrow canal through which we enter and go 

 out, there is no where three fathom of water, and in many 

 places not half that depth. This is the cafe with all the 

 harbours on the eaft-coaft of the Red Sea, while thofe on 

 the wefc are deep, without any banks or bars before them y 

 which is probably owing, as I have already faid, to the vio- 

 lence of the north-well winds, the only conflant flrong winds 

 to be met with in this Gulf. Thefe occafion llrong cur- 

 rents to fet in upon the eafl-coaft, and heap up the fand and 

 gravel which is blown in from Arabia. 



All next day, the 4th, we were employed at warping out 

 our veiTel againfl a contrary wind. The 5th, at three quar- 

 ters pail five in the morning, we got under fail with little 



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