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there obferved the bearings and diftances of feveral iflands, 

 with which we were engaged; Foofht, W.b.N.^ north, four 

 leagues ; Baccalan N.W.b.W. three leagues ; Baida, a large 

 high rock above the water, with white fteep cliffs, and a 

 great quantity of fea-fowl ; Djund, and Mufracken, two 

 large rocks off the weft point off Baccalan, W.N.W.£ weft, 

 eleven miles ; they appear, at a diftance, like a large heap 

 of ruins : Umfegger, a very fmall ifland, nearly level with 

 the water, W.N.W.^r weft four miles diftant ; Nachel, S.E.^E. 

 one league off; Ajerb S.E.b.E.i fouth, two leagues ; Sur- 

 bat, an ifland S.E.b.E.| fouth, diftant ten miles ; it has a 

 marabout or Shekh's tomb upon it : Dahu and Dee, two 

 fmall iflands, clofe together, N.W.^ weft, about eleven 

 miles diftant; Djua S.E.4- fouth; it is a fmall white ifland 

 four leagues and a half off: Sahar, W.^ north, nine miles off. 



On the 6th, we got under fail at five o'clock in the morn- 

 ing. Our water had failed us as we forefaw, but in the 

 evening we anchored at Foofht, in two fathoms water eaft 

 of the town, arid here ftaid the following day, our failors 

 being employed in filling our fkins with water, for they 

 make no ufe of cafks in this fea. 



g Foosht is an ifland of irregular form. It is about five 

 miles from fouth to north, and about nine in circumference* 

 It abounds in good fifh. We did not ufe our net, as our 

 lines more than fupplied us. There were many kinds, paint- 

 ed with the moft beautiful colours in the world, but I al- 

 ways obferved, the more beautiful they were, the worfe for 

 eating. There were indeed none good but thofe that re- 

 fembled the fifh of the north in their form, and plainnefs 

 of their colours. Foofht is low and fandy on the fouth, and 

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