ISLAND OF BUCKAH. 
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perfect level, we measured a base of two thousand seyen hundred 
feet, and took sets of bearings with a theodolite, from which, and 
others taken by similar means on the Island of Dalheit, all the 
main points in the chart are laid down. The high land of 
Buckah is composed of large masses of basaltes, of a dark, 
burnt, brown colour, about three feet thick, and seven or eight 
in diameter piled in loose strata, occasionally presenting the 
appearance of rained walls. The low grounds of all the islands 
in this bay are composed, like those of Amphila, of marine pro- 
ductions. From Buckah I computed the highest point of Howa- 
kil to rise about six hundred and fifty feet above the level of the 
sea. On our return we passed to the eastward of that island, and 
thus completed a circuit of about twenty-four miles, which pre- 
vented our reaching the ship until it was dark. 
On the following morning we left our anchorage at Adjuice,* 
and attempted to beat out of the Bay, but the wind being con- 
trary we were compelled to seek shelter under the Island of 
Dalheit, where we were detained by a continuance of the same 
cause until the 7th of February, during which time we experienced 
dark cloudy weather, and occasionally heavy rain, with the wind 
as usual from N.W. to N. N.W. ; the thermometer from 75 to 78. 
On the 7th of February we again set sail. At one o'clock the 
sea, for a considerable extent round the ship, became so extremely 
red, that it occasioned us, on its first being observed, considerable 
alarm ; but, on sounding, our fears immediately subsided, as we 
* There is a village on the Island of Adjuice, which the Captain visited 5 he found the 
natives very civil, and procured from them seven goats, for the use of the ship, for five 
dollars. 
