BOMBAY TO BUSHIRE. 
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felt persuaded that the prayers, offered up to God by such men and in 
such a manner, would be favourably accepted. 
As the coast of Mekran , (taken largely, from the Indus to the 
entrance of the gulph of Persia,) along which we now sailed, is so 
little visited in this age, and has, indeed, been so seldom described 
since the days of Alexander, it may, perhaps, be acceptable to 
insert even the few and incomplete notices of the country Which my 
journal affords. 
On the 18th. we lost sight of the coast. On the 24th we again saw 
land, which in appearance was remarkable. It was a very long range of 
table land, the soil of which, though light coloured, was strongly marked 
in horizontal strata. As we approached it, we discovered several curious 
capes, rising in a varied succession of grotesque forms; and among 
them one so very singular, that we were surprised that it had not been 
particularly described by those who have compiled the directories for 
navigating these seas. By our chronometers we took this land to be 
Cape Moran* The shore gradually shallows from twelve to five 
fathoms, when we tacked and stood off again in the evening, expecting 
a land breeze to spring up, but were disappointed. The sea is here very 
much discoloured, the effect probably of black mud at the bottom. 
25th. Sept. Cape Arubah is a long slip of table land, which on 
its first appearance looks like an island/}' Its soil seems to be clay, 
and of a colour a few shades darker than Portland stone. We did 
not discover, among the head-lands into which it was broken, the parti- 
eular cape which might have given its name to the whole; but the highest 
point to the westward appeared to deserve the preference. Beyond that 
western extremity of the tableland, the coast immediately recedes into a 
bay, which is terminated by a long range of extremely rugged mourn 
* Th e Malaria of Vincent’s Nearchus, p. 197. Horseburgh notices it very slightly. 
(( in coasting to the westward from Hinglah , another point called Mumn is discerned.” 
p. 231. u Directions, &c.” 
t The log of the Nereide, Sept. 26th. seems to refer to it, as (< the above island.” 
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