APPENDIX. 
XV 
Eight miles westward from Derna, at two miles distance from the 
shore, there are three small rocky islets, which must be avoided. 
The whole of this coast is very thinly inhabited. 
Derna is situated at the mouth of a large fiumara, and is sur- 
rounded by clusters of date-trees, which are sufficient of themselves 
to distinguish the place ; but it may also be known by a ruined 
castle upon a ridge above the town, on the western side of the fiumara, 
and a marabut, which stands upon a point, a mile from the town. 
There is a good roadstead about a mile and a half off shore, and 
some shelter for small craft close in shore with the wind from north- 
north-west to south-east ; but they cannot remain with a north-east or 
easterly wind, nor should they hang on too long in the event of the 
wind coming in, or they will find it difficult to weather either of the 
capes. 
Supplies of fresh beef, vegetables, fruit, and water may be had in 
abundance. Cattle are from seven to nine dollars a head, and fine 
sheep about a dollar a-piece. 
The town is the residence of Sidi Mahommed, Bey of the district, 
and eldest son of the Bashaw of Tripoly ; to whom it might be found 
advantageous to make some little present, and to notice by firing a 
salnte. 
Derna is not at all defended ; there is an old fort upon the sandy 
point, but the guns are not in order, and those which once occupied 
the turrets of the castle upon the hill are thrown down and rendered 
useless by corrosion — the only annoyance boats attempting to land 
could find, would be from the few muskets which the inhabitants 
might furnish. 
The best landing place is to the eastward of the date-trees in a 
sandy bay round a low point about half a mile eastward of the 
marabut. Some rocks lie off this point which boats should avoid. 
At Derna, as at Bengazi, the most prevalent wind during the 
summer is along shore ; but here it comes from the west north-west. 
The north wind appears to diverge at Ras Sem, and takes the direc- 
tion of Bengazi on one side, and Alexandria on the other ; for which 
Rocky Islets. 
Derna. 
Supplies. 
Strength. 
Landing. 
Prevalent winds. 
