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CHAPTER V. 
After clearing the islands of Amphila we kept close in with 
the shore, which enabled me to make some useful observations 
respecting its shape and direction, and in a few hours we reached 
Sarbo, where we came to an anchor immediately under the 
point. In this situation we found the shelter from the southward 
tolerably good, though subject to a heavy swell, but, as the islands 
do not afford any protection in the north-west quarter, it is a place 
by no means to be resorted to^ except as an occasional anchorage. 
We dedicated the 25th to a survey of the eastern end of the 
Bay of Howakil. On going up Sarbo Hill for this purpose, 
we found some very fine plants of the balsam, and of another 
shrub producing a gum much resembling bdellium, of which 
I preserved several specimens ; and from these it was ascer- 
tained on my return, that both plants belong to the genus 
amyris. From the top of the hill we had a fine view of the 
coast, with its numerous curving inlets, bays, and islands, of 
which I took a double set of bearings ; and as the hills which we 
had seen at Amphila continued in sight, it connected our survey 
with that bay. Here I also observed the meridian altitude of the 
sun with an artificial horizon, which proved the latitude of the 
place to be in 15° 0' 48'' N. Captain Weatherhead made an obser- 
vation at the same time upon the extremity of the point, the 
