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the entry or paflage by which the devil comes up to this 

 world. 



Six leagues E. by S. of this ifland there is a dangerous* 

 fhoal with great overfalls, on which a French Ihip ftruck in 

 the year 1 75 1, and was faved with very great difficulty. Jibbel 

 Teir is the point from which all our mips, going to Jidda, 

 take their departure, after failing from Mocha, and palling 

 the iflands to the fouthward. 



We left Jibbel Teir on the i ith with little wind at well, but 

 towards mid-day it freshened as ufual, and turned north ward 

 to N.N. eaft. We were now in' mid-channel, fo that we flood 

 on ilraight for Dahalac till half pall four, when a boy, 

 who went aloft, faw four iflands in a direction N. W. by 

 W4 weft. We were Handing on with a frefh breeze, and 

 all our fails full, when I faw, a little before fun-fet, a white- 

 fringed wave of the well-known figure of a breaker. I 

 cried to the Rais for God's fake to fhorten fail, for I faw a 

 breaker a-head, Ilraight in our way. He faid there was no 

 fuch thing ; that I had miftaken it, for it was a fea-gull. A- 

 bout feven in the evening we ilruck upon a reef of coral' 

 rocks. Arabs are cowards in all fudden dangers, which 

 they confider as particular directions or mandates of pro- 

 vidence, and therefore not to be avoided. Few uncultiva- 

 ted minds indeed have any calmnefs, or, immediate refource 

 in themfelves when in unexpected danger. The Arab fai- 

 lors were immediately for taking the boat,* and failing to 

 the iflands the boy had feen. The Abyffinians were for cut- 

 ting up the planks and wood of the inlide of the veflel, and 

 making her a raft, 



A violent 



