Hammah. 
Ras How-y-jer. 
Ras Bengervvad. 
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sand that has nearly covered it. At ZafFeran supplies of meat, 
some few vegetables, and good water, will be found. The Arab 
teUts are at the back of the sand-hills. These hills extend a few 
miles to the eastward of ZafFeran ; the coast then rises into clifFs of 
about fifty feet in height, and is covered with vegetation and brush- 
wood. These cliffs terminate at a wadey eleven leagues eastw'ard 
of ZafFeran, and the coast then continues low and sandy, with sand- 
hills, at a short distance from it. There are here several small bays, 
and one in particular at Hammah, in which boats may find shelter with 
almost all winds, and may procure good water, from some wells 
situated close to the beach. The country about it abounds in game ; 
but we would not recommend landing here, or, in fact, on any part of 
the coast, without being provided with a chaous. Five miles east- 
ward of Hammah the coast is hilly, but soon declines again to the 
low sandy beach which continues to Ras How-y-jer, having a range 
of liills about two or three miles from the coast. 
Ras How-y-jer is a bluff rock, that has the appearance of a ruined 
castle; it stands at the entrance of a spacious bay formed between 
it and a bold rocky promontory, called Bengerwad. South 76° east 
(true) from How-y-jer we noticed the water discoloured, but the sea 
did not break. In the above-mentioned bay ships may find shelter 
from east to west north-west, and boats may land in a sandy bay a 
little south of How-y-jer with almost all winds. 
Bengerwad is about sixty feet in height, and has been strongly 
fortified, but the ruins are not visible from the sea. There is a 
small sandy bay, close round the cape, convenient for Imiding ; but 
care must be taken to avoid the mouth of a ravine, that comes down 
from the mountains, and deposits a soft quicksand, upon which it is 
dangerous to land. The range of hills that extend from Boosaida 
are distant from Bengerwad only a few hundred yards, and after- 
wards recede to a mile or more from the sea. From Bengerwad the 
coast gets low, and small sandy bays are formed between very low 
rocky flats, some of which project a mile into the 'sea, and are not 
more than a foot above water. Sixteen leagues from Bengerwad 
