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ficient to discharge the tenth part of the water that en- 
tered; so that we were in danger of perishing, when 
we were enabled fortunately to cast anchor between 
some sunk rocks, where we waited until two o'clock in 
the afternoon. The force of the storm being somewhat 
diminished, we sailed again to the N. W. among a 
thousand shoals and banks, and once more came to 
anchor at five in the evening, in a road upon the coast 
of Arabia, which afforded excellent anchorage. 
Tuesday, \2th May. 
The day had hardly began to dawn when a violent 
storm arose. The fury of the tempest soon abated a 
little, but the bad weather continued until the afternoon, 
and forced us to pass the day in this road, which is 
called Ben Hhaddem. 
It was on this day that I first saw the coast of Africa, 
which presents high mountains upon this side. 
Several daos that had preceded us, and others that 
were behind, joined us successively. 
Wednesday, 13 th May. • 
This voyage now began to be very fatiguing. On the 
13th four men died on board one of the Scherif's daos, 
and one on board our own. There were three others 
dangerously ill, who would take no remedy in conse- 
quence of their false system of fatality, to which their 
comrade had just fallen a victim. I had to attend, at the 
same time, two sick, and two wounded; namely, my 
captain, who had a bad contusion on his leg, and one 
belonging to another dao, who had a severe wound in 
the sole of his foot; both, however, were advancing to- 
wards a cure, but my little medicine chest began to be 
nearly exhausted. 
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