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APPENDIX. 
After purchasing a few young goats, which are here, as well as at 
Valentia Island, excellent, I left Dohul on the ^6th of July P. M. ; 
but owing to contrary winds and threatening weather did not reach 
Nockara Roads, until the next day about noon, at which time it 
blew a hard gale from the westward. At five P. M. the wind 
began to veer round to the southward, and the weather to wear 
altogether so threatening an aspect, that I was induced to strike the 
lower yards and topmasts. This and every other possible precau- 
tion being taken, and all our anchors down, saved us, under God's 
providence, from shipwreck. Since I have been at sea, I never have 
in any vessel rode out a harder gale of wind at anchor ; nor was I 
ever in my life at anchor on a lee-shore with so awful a prospect of 
inevitable destruction, had an accident happened to one of our 
cables. The gale continued with unabated violence from four P.M. 
of the ^7th until ten A.M. of the ^8th. During the whole of the 
night loud peals of thunder, vivid lightning, and a sea of fire, 
encreased the terrific horrors of our situation. Thanks be to God ! 
we rode the storm out, which began to abate considerably about 
noon on the ^8th ; and in (he evening Unus brought us off sixteen 
casks of water. 
At five P. M. on the SOth, having replenished our stock of this 
article, we weighed and made sail for Massowah harbour, in which 
we anchored in safety a quarter before ten, A. M. on the ^9th, and 
were fortunate enough, with the assistance of a diver, procured 
us by Unus, to recover the bow anchor we had parted from, and 
left behind us on the :^Oth. 
Having learned that a kafila was arrived from Dixan, I applied 
to the Nayib to know whether letters had not come by it for 
