56 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER. 
Tuere are no {parrows to be feen here, or onthe oppofite 
fhore, nor in theiflands. Although there were fcorpions in 
abundance at Loheia, we found none of them at Mafuah. 
Water and greens, efpecially of the melon and cucumber 
kind, feem to be neceflary to this poifonous infect. Indeed 
it was only after rains we faw them in Loheia, and then the 
young ones appeared in fwarms; this was in the end of 
Auguit. They are of a dull green colour, bordering upon 
yeliow. As far as I could obferve, no perfon apprehended 
any thing from their fling beyond a few minutes pain. 
We left Mafuah the roth of November, with the foldiers 
and boats belonging to Achmet. We had likewife three 
fervants from Abyflinia, and no longer apprehended the 
Naybe, who feemed, on his part, to think no more of us. 
In the bay between Mafuah and Arkeeko are two iflands, 
Toulahout and Shekh Seide ; the firft on the weft, the other 
on the fouth. They are both uninhabited, and without 
water. Shekh Seide has a marabout, or faint’s tomb, on the 
weft end. It is not half a mile in length, when not over- 
flowed, but has two large points of fand which run far out 
to the eaft and to the weft. Its weft point runs fo near to 
Toulahout, as, at low-water, {carce to leave a channel for 
the breadth of a boat to pafs between. 
Tuere is a chart, or map of the ifland of Mafuah, hand- 
ed about with other bad maps and charts of the Red Sea, 
(of which I have already fpoken) among our Englith cap- 
tains from India. It feems to be of as old date as the firft 
Janding of the Portuguefe under Don Roderigo de Lima, in 
the time of David IJ. but it is very inaccurate, or rather er- 
roneous, 
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