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Saturday, 28th March. 
I went ashore about four o*clock in the morning, 
carrying with me my telescope. I observed perfectly an 
immersion of the third of Jupiter's satellites, which gave 
me 36° 5l' 45" E. longitude for the village. 
It was near six when we set sail, almost without 
wind. We steered first towards the west, and afterwards 
to the west- south- west, until the wind having failed en- 
tirely, we had to be towed along by the boats. A west 
wind sprang up about ten o'clock, which made us 
change our course to the north-west. At noon I ob- 
served the latitude, which was 22° 38' 14" north. 
We sailed the remainder of the day to the north-west, 
and anchored at El Hhabt, where I found our chro- 
nometrical longitude to be 36° 18' 45" east from Paris. 
The latitudes which I took on this and the preceding 
day, presented a difference of only 7' 9"; and the esti- 
mate of our way gave me the latitude of Arabog pretty 
nearly, which I reckon upon the same parallel as my 
observation taken this day, with a trifling difference. 
We passed before Meschtura in the afternoon, about a 
league and a half from El Hhabt. 
Sunday, 29th March. 
We set sail about half past four in the morning, with 
very little wind, to which a complete calm succeeded 
soon afterwards. All the ships were obliged to be 
towed by boats until ten, when a fine west wind began 
to blow. 
We sailed to the north-west between a labyrinth of 
shoals and rocks, upon a level with the surface of the 
sea, some of which were hardly twelve or fifteen feet 
apart from each other. We passed afterwards through. 
