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wind. At half pail nine, Loheia bore eaft north- eaft about 

 four leagues diftant ; and here we came in fight of feveral 

 fmall, barren, and uninhabited iflands. Booarifh bore fouth- 

 weft two miles off; Zebid one mile and a half diftant, eaft 

 and by north ; Amar, the fmalleft of all, one mile fouth ; 

 and Ormook, fouth-eaft by eaft two miles. 



The Arabs of the mountain, who had attempted to furprife 

 Loheia in the fpring, now prepared for another attack againft 

 it, and had advanced within three days journey. This obli- 

 ged the Emir to draw together all his troops from the neigh- 

 bourhood ; all the camels were employed to lay in an ex- 

 traordinary ftock of water. 



Our Rais, who was a ftranger, and without connections 

 in this place, found himfelf under great difficulties to pro- 

 vide water enough for the voyage, for we had but a fcanty 

 provifion left, and though our boat was no more than lixty 

 feet long, we had about forty people on board of her. I had 

 indeed hired the vefTel for myfelf, but gave the Rais leave 

 to take fome known people pafTengers on board, as it was 

 very dangerous to make enemies in the place to which I 

 was going, by fruftrating any perfon of his voyage home, 

 even though I paid for the boat, and ftill as dangerous to 

 take a perfon unknown, whofe end in the voyage might be 

 to defeat my defigns. We were refolved, therefore, to bear 

 away for an ifland to the northward, where they laid the 

 water was both good, and in plenty. 



In the courfe of this day, we pafTed feveral fmall iflands, 

 and, in the evening, anchored in feven fathom and a half of 

 water, near a fhoal diltant four leagues from Loheia. We 



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