AT SEA. 
vessel was going seven knots, which I did not expect from her. We 
had during the whole of the last day a strong set to the south, which 
took us thirty miles. We coasted the land during the whole time. 
Mount Felix is united to the main land by a low sand : it is con- 
spicuous, and cannot be mistaken. We were opposite to it after it 
was dark. 
On the 13th a very pleasant breeze came on from the north of 
east. We steered W. and by N. straight for Aden, and passed the 
high land behind Gape St. Peter. The coast is very high and 
barren : it was still in sight at night, though a haze, which ex- 
tended across the whole sea, concealed the base. The stars near the 
horizon were hardly visible. Several meteors, called falling stars, 
shot occasionally across the sky ; but no aurora borealis had ap - 
peared during the whole voyage. A heavy dew fell all night. The 
sea was smooth, though we went at the rate of six knots an hour. 
We had a very fine breeze during the whole night of the 13th, 
but no land was visible on the following morning. The sky was clear, 
and the water smooth. At twelve o'clock we had run one hundred 
and twenty miles in twenty-four hours. 
At eight in the morning of the 15 th a part of the African shore 
was in sight, distant about eleven leagues, which was as high as 
that on the opposite side. At one Cape Aden bore right a-head 
WbyN^N. distant eleven leagues. We went on till night, when it 
was so near, that we determined to come to an anchor. We passed 
the head land, and anchored at nine o'clock on the other side, close^ 
as we supposed, to the town ; but could not be certain, as no one on 
board had ever been there, and we had no directions respecting 
making it. The land sheltered us, and we had little motion. 
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