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fortunate as to get one before you come near Judda, 
it would be moft certainly prudent to keep 30 or 40 
miles from the fhore, at lead: fo far that you can 
but juft difcern the high land of Goofs and Gedan, 
at which diftance there is no danger. Although 
this may appear a great diftance for the pilots to 
come off to the fhip, yet they will immediately do 
it as foon as they hear your gun, and not till then. 
It is indeed amazing, and almoft incredible to be told, 
how far thefe pilots will hear the guns on aftill morning 
or evening, which are theproper times for the guns to 
be fired. Obferve to fire the firft as foon as you fee 
the fun appear in the horizon, and thefecond as foon 
as the lower limb is juft out of the water; in the 
evening, the firft as foon as the lower limb touches 
the water, and the fecond when the upper limb is 
below the horizon. Four firings in one day is all that 
are neceffary ; but they are to be repeated every day 
till you get a pilot. They know pretty near the time 
the India fhips will arrive, and go down to the water 
fide every night and morning,, and juft as the fun is 
rifing or fetting, they lay their ear clofe to the ground 
for three or four minutes, and pretend to fay, that 
if a fhip is not more than two or two and a half 
degrees diftance when the gun is fired, they can 
either hear the report or find the ground fhake under 
them; upon which they take a boat and come off' to 
pilot you in. This may feem a little extraordinary to 
a perfon that never was there; but, however ftrange 
it may appear, I was affured by a gentleman of un- 
doubted veracity, that he run by the log 95 miles 
from the time of firing his two guns in the morning;,, 
till he fa w the pilot in the evening; and when he 
came- 
