A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 8 - By Robert Kerr












































 -  I now sent instructions to Captain
Towerson and Mr Davis for their conduct on our arrival at Mokha roads,
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I Now Sent Instructions To Captain Towerson And Mr Davis For Their Conduct On Our Arrival At Mokha Roads, That Our Ships And People Might Be Guarded Against The Treachery Of The Turks.

The 12th we were in sight of the high land of Aden, bearing W. by S. ten leagues off.

The 13th, in the evening, we were fourteen leagues eastwards of the entry of the straits, and sixteen leagues west from Aden, and came here to anchor on a fine sandy bottom. The 14th, we weighed in the morning, steering for the straits, having a small gale at W. by N. with rain, being the first we had seen for four months. In the evening, believing ourselves off the straits, we stood off and on under easy sail all night, constantly heaving the lead, being eight or nine leagues off the Arabian coast. About noon of the 15th we opened the straits, and at night anchored in fifteen and a half fathom, on black oose, three leagues from the Arabian, and ten from the Abyssinian shore, the weather being so clear that we could distinctly see both.

[Footnote 410: The island or islands of Demiti or Mete, are in lat. 11 deg. 45' N. - E.]

The 16th we weighed in the morning, and stood for Mokha, where we came to anchor in five and a half fathoms. Not long after anchoring, the governor sent off a poor old slave in a small canoe, to know the cause of our coming.

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