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A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin, esq. ; illustrated with maps and cuts.

  • Eyles Irwin
Date:
M.DCC.LXXX. [1780]
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Credit: A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt; and of a route through the desarts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European traveller, in the year M.DCC.LXXVII. in letters to a lady / by Eyles Irwin, esq. ; illustrated with maps and cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 86.] how the fituation of thefe iflands could have been taken by vef- fels that dare not approach them. He has not the leaft idea of the ufe of the quadrant ; and he conceived that we were rather making difcoveries 1 in the heavens, than isi orga our latitude below. We began to keep a regular watch to-night. “Each gentleman and his fervant to take two hours in rotation... We'fhall run no rifk, it feems, until we get among the flan) but it is prudent to inure ourfelves in time to a neceflary habit. |There were hard gales from the N. W. all day and part ofthe night. WEDNESDAY, 18th June. We were under way at 6 A. M. with the wind at N. by W. and ftood out to fea.. But the wind was too moderate to be of much fervice to us, againft the heavy fwell which the late blow- ing weather has occafioned. » We tacked therefore at ro o'clock, and the wind coming round more to the W. we were enabled, contrary to our expectations, to fetch a reef to the northward of Cape Mahar about 2 P.M. There is another boat at anchor about'a mile to the northward of us, fuppofed alfo to be bound to Suez. Our boat beats better to windward than thé two which were in company with us yefterday. The largeft of which has run into fhore near a league to the paces apine and the other within a mile of us. - We were difappointed of an obfervation to- ~day ee the . high lands to the fouthward, which obftructed our view. Our pro- grefs however has been very little. Were not the full moon at hand, we fhould look for little fuccefs in beating up fuch a coaft as this. A few days:of a dfoutherly wind would give us a good fhove in the fhort diftance we are going; and all our hopes reft on the influence of this ufeful planet. The gentle light which
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