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compensate for their rudeness, turned a family out of the next ha- 
bitation, and gave it to us for a cook-room. This was, however, after 
having been severely reprimanded by the Nayib's servant, who had 
evidently received very strict orders to provide for our accommo- 
dation: he had throughout been of the greatest use to us, and had 
uniformly paid attention to all our wishes. There was no milk to 
be procured here, but we got a kid, with some little trouble, and 
three fowls. 
" The weather was so cloudy, that the sun was not visible at 
twelve ; but Captain Court afterwards took a double altitude, to 
ascertain the latitude. In the evening he went and measured a base 
from the north-western mosque to a goat-shed half a mile distant, 
and at the latter station took a set of bearings, having in sight the 
islands of Irwee, Dalcoos, and Saiel Sezan, and, to the west, the vil- 
lage of Saied-el-Ait. We used our utmost endeavours to procure a 
boat to go over to Irwee, but in vain< We were informed that there 
is only a small village on the island, visited by a few fishermen on 
-catamarans; that its coast is low, with here and there a tree upon 
it; and that the water between it and the nearest point of the coast 
to Dobelew, is shallow, and full of shoals. We now proposed to the 
Dola going up to Ras Antalou; but he assured us, that the only 
practicable means of doing so, would be to go by water from No- 
khara, since, on the road from this place, there were neither asses 
nor camels to be procured, nor people to afford us accommodations 
of any kind. It was determined, therefore, that we should walk in 
the morning to a rocky eminence, called Jissoom, which is the high- 
est land in the neighbourhood of Dobelew. Abdallah and the two 
seamen went down to the sea side in the morning to look for shells ; 
