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came on board, he declared that he heard the two 
guns that morning at fun-riling, upon the ftrength 
of which, he took his boat and put off. 
To fail into Judda harbour, or rather road, without 
a pilot, would be impoflible for a ftranger, there being 
fo many fand-banks and fhelves of rocks ; but when 
you are in, it is one of the fafeft places that can 
poflibly be ; you may make your Ihip fall with any 
old junk, and there is no danger, though you are 
furrounded with nothing but rocks and fands. 
The bed bearing for anchoring is the great Mofque 
E. by S. and the extremes of the land from S. by E. 
to N. N. W. diftance from the landing-place about 
two miles. 
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Latitude of Judda 21 28 N. 
Longitude Ditto 39 26 45 E. 
Variation of the compafs 11 52 W. 
I left Judda the 30th of July 1769, and pafled 
by the grap fhoals (lying in the latitude of 21 0 
20' N.) at about a mile’s diftance, from which 
I took my departure and made my courfe the firft 
day S. 24 0 W. dift. 56 miles; the fecond day, S. 1 5°E. 
dift. 100 miles. On the third day about 6 o’clock 
in the afternoon I faw a very high land on the Ethi- 
opian fhore (about the latitude of iB° 38' N.) and 
fome fmall iflands a little to the Northward of it; the 
high land bore about W. N. W. and the fmall iflands 
N. W. dift. from the high land about 10 leagues; 
we had then run from the Grab fhoal 195 miles. 
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