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and there to flay till the fouth-eafler relieves her in Novem- 

 ber. After you double Gardefan, the fum-mcr monfoon,... 

 at north-eafc, is carrying your venel full fail to Sofala, when 

 the anomalous monfoon takes her off the coafi: of Melinda^ 

 and forces her ' into Tarfhifh, where fhe is imprifoned for fix 

 months in the Mocha there. So that this word is very em- 

 phatically applied to thofe places where mips are neceffarily 

 detained by the change of monfoons, and proves the truths 

 of what I have faid. 



The laft Cape on the Abymnian fKore.,. before you run'; 

 into the Straits, is Cape Defan, called by the Portuguefe,, 

 Cape Baful. This has no meaning in any language ; the 

 Abyffinians, on whofe fide it is, call it Cape Dcfim, the Cape 

 of Burial. It was probably there where the eaft wind drove j 

 aihore the bodies of fuch as had been fhipwrecked in the 

 voyage. The point of the fame coaft, which ftretches out 

 into the Gulf, before you arrive- at Babelmandeb, was, by 

 the Romans, called Promoniorium Aromatum, and fmce, by the 

 Portuguefe, Cape Gardefui. But the name given it by the 

 Abyffinians and failors on the Gulf is, Cape Gardefan, the: 

 Straits of Burial. 



Still nearer the Straits is a fmall port m the kingdom; 

 of Adel, called Mete, I e. Death , ..or, he or they are dead. And. 

 more to the weitward,.in the fame kingdom, is Mount Felix^ 

 corruptly fo called by the Portuguefe. The Latins call it 

 Elephas Mons, the Mountain of the Elephant.; and the na^ 

 tives, Jibbei Feel, which has the fame fignification. The Por- 

 tuguefe, who did not know that Jibbei Feel was Elephas 

 Mons, being milled by the found, have called it Jibbei Felix, 

 the. Happy Mountain, a name to which it has no fort of title, 



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