AT SEA, 
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September 2 1 . Lat. 3° 43' S. course N. 28 E., Therm. 79, Wind 
S. S. E. to south ; no current. 
September 22. Lat. at noon 1° 19' S., Long. 44** 54' E., Therm, 
79, Var. A. M. 12° 0', Wind S. S. W., Current setting T^. E., half 
a mile an hour. 
September 23. Lat. at noon 1°2'30" N., Long. 46° 0', Therm. 
79, Var. A.M., 8' 30' W. The wind S. to S.S. W., current runr 
ning 1~ mile per hour in our favour. At four P.M. we saw 
the land situated between the towns of Brava and Magadoxa, 
(by the Arabs termed Berawa* and Mugdasho,) extending from 
west ^ south to north-east. The nearest point was distant about 
six leagues, bearing N. W. by N. and appeared to be a sandy 
hill. The whole coast was moderately high, barren, and sandy 
\yith an irregularly swelling outline that had no remarkable 
points by which it could be particularized. We sounded with 
seven ty-fiye fathoms of line, but found no bottom. 
At this time we had passed the deep bay, as it may be justly 
termed, ipi which are situated the islands of Monfia, Zanzebar and 
Pemba. It was our intention to have visited these, but the season 
was so far advanced that it was deemed necessary to make the best 
pfourway to Aden before the change of the monsoon should have 
taken place ; for when the northerly monsoon has once set in, which 
it does in about the month of October, there is no possibility of 
beating up against it. This circumstance was proved by the ships 
under Admiral Blanket in 1798-9, which, though some of th§ 
* The town of Brava makes a respectable appearance on the sea side, and on one of 
the small islands in front of it stands a light-house of a tolerable height. Its positiou is 
r 12'and44M0' east." (Captain Bissell's Journal.) 
