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grapher Captain Court, and now given to the public in my chart, 
be compared with the description of Mr. Bruce, hardly one point of 
resemblance will be found between the two ; and I trust there will 
be no doubt in the public mind to which the credit ought to be 
given. 
The round harbour of Dobelew, with its narrow entrance, is no 
where discoverable, and the town itself, instead of being, as he 
states, three miles S. W. of the harbour, is, in fact, on a parallel 
with the northern extremity of Irwee, which forms the harbour, 
and is an island ; a circumstance which ought to have been known 
to him had he actually been on the spot. It is not however with 
Captain Court only that Mr. Bruce differs; his bearings, as given 
by himself, are irreconcilable, and, after several attempts, it was 
found impossible to lay down the islands between Jibbel Teir and 
Dhalac from his account, which is much to be regretted, as it is 
improbable that any other traveller will venture through the shoals 
on the eastern side of the island, when so much safer a passage is 
afforded on the western. 
The account given by Mr. Bruce of the animals drinking out of 
the cisterns, and washing in them, is evidently untrue, from the 
construction of them, as described by Mr. Salt, they being arched 
over, with a hole in the centre. 
The impudence ascribed by Mr. Bruce to the women of Do- 
belew makes me still more doubtful of his having been at that 
place; since it is hardly probable that they would have totally 
changed their habits in a period of thirty years, during which 
time it is evident that their poverty had not diminished. 
The errors in Mr. Bruce's account of Dhalac-el-Kibeer, its harbour, 
