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to be safe on land, and that the saihng in unknown seas was pro- 
bably safer when beating up, than when going briskly before the 
wind. As far as Mocha, we were certain of having the N.E. mon- 
soon, though probably, on account of the lateness of the season, it 
would be only light, and we should be much baffled with calms, 
and for the remainder of the the voyage we knew we could take 
shelter in an harbour, and wait for finer weather, should a gale over- 
take us. Admiral Rainier, whom I had the good fortune to find 
here, did me the honour of calling on me the morning after my 
arrival, with several of his officers : some of them had been in the 
Red Sea, from whom I had the pleasure of learning many circum- 
stances, which tended to diminish any alarms that might have been 
excited by the accounts of former travellers ; and they confirmed me 
in my determination of surveying the Abyssinian shore, by the 
admission of the fact, that, during the whole time our fleets were in 
the Red Sea, not one vessel had quitted the Arabian coast. 
With Captain Keys of the Antelope, who called on me, I was 
much pleased, as his manners were perfectly gentlemanly ; and the 
concern he expressed at the smallness of his vessel, and the con- 
sequent difficulty of accommodating me to his wish, induced me to 
suppose that I should find him inclined to do every thing in his power 
to make my voyage comfortable, I determined to go on board the 
Antelope the next morning: I found her to be a brig, quite as large 
as I expected, about one hundred and fifty tons, mounting twelve 
eighteen-pound carronades, and having on board forty-one Euro- 
peans, including officers, sixteen marines, and thirty lascars and 
servants. For these they had on board six month's rice and salt 
meat, with forty days water ; of course there could be little room 
