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APPENDIX III. 



nortliward of tlie cape. During the preceding niglit a 

 considerable dew had fallen, and the weather to-day was 

 damp and cloudy, the thermometer at 78 J''. As the sup- 

 posed site of the river Doara ^ (Note 4) was near at hand, 

 the examination of which formed one of our principal ob- 

 jects, it became desirable to avoid passing any part of the 

 coast in the night, but towards the evening the wind unfor- 

 tunately began to blow very fresh with a heavy swell, and 

 being on bad holding ground, we were once more reluct- 

 antly compelled to work to windward. Lat. observed at 

 noon 4^ 14' N. ; long, by lunar at 2 p.m. 47° 42' E. ; varia- 

 tion per azimuth 9" 15' "W. 



oOth, Wednesday. Continued steering S.W. about 

 2 3 miles from the land, in from 7 to 10 fathoms, white 

 sand and coral, the Sylpli keeping her course half way 

 between us and the shore in regular soundings of 6 and 7 

 fathoms. This day's sail presented the same barren pros- 

 pect as the coast we had already traced ; it was still low 

 and sandy, remarkably white, and to all appearance com- 

 pletely desert ; neither huts, people, nor cattle of any 

 description to be observed. The shore was in many 

 places rocky, and a high surf beat over it. At 2 y.u. 

 breakers appeared ahead, distant less than 2 miles, and a 

 little beyond them, low land, which seemed to be an 

 island ; to weather these it became necessary to haul off 

 shore, and immediately after taking this j^recaution, the 

 wind began again to blow exceeding fresh, with a very 

 heavy swell, which forced us to continue standing out to 



• Still generally written Doara. It is apparently a mere Nullah or 

 Fiumara, and is hardly mentioned by modern navi;^ators. I can only 

 suf^gcst that the nanie might have been derived from Daaro, a district or 

 tribe on the Upper Juba river, and t he inveterate confusion of the poL- 

 amology in this part of Africa cau alone account for the error. 



