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our expectations of a favourable passage. We were obliged to 
double reef our topsails, and strike our topgallant yards Unus 
did not like the appearance of the weather, and disappeared; pro- 
bably he returned to Jidda. 
January 6. — In defiance of the foul wind, a strong current to the 
N. W. enabled us to make some way. In the morning the Arabian 
shore was in sight, near Yambo. It forms that part of the great 
chain of Raduan, which is called Lamlam, and is the land mark to 
the dows which are bound to Yambo. 
January 8.— We had a slight southerly wind, and a current to 
the N. W. which carried us seventeen miles in the twenty-four hours. 
At night the breeze gradually freshened till it blew a gale from the 
S. W. and obliged us to clew up, and furl our square sails. We af- 
terwards lay to under the fore staysail and mizzen. The swell was 
great, and so short, that sleeping was impossible till after twelve, 
when it moderated sufficiently for us to set our double-reefed top- 
sails and courses. 
January 9.— We were on the look out for a reef laid down by Sir 
Home Popham, in lat. ^6^ N. but could not discover it, though we 
sailed over the very spot where it should be. The night was hazy, 
but in the morning the Arabian shore was in sight, distant four or 
five leagues. We stood towards a remarkable cape, that rose abruptly 
to a great height, and off" which we discovered breakers, and a shoal. 
As this was laid down in no chart, and was an important headland, 
I named it Cape Barry, after my friend Colonel Maxwell Barry. It 
lies in ^6° 32,' N. At twelve,' on sounding, we found only twenty-six 
fathom, rock. We instantly tacked, and were shortly in good sound- 
ings, from twenty to twenty-four fathom, mud. Our friendly cur- 
