The Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal August 1836

The book is also of great service in pointing out the maritime channels of Arab commerce at the period of its highest prosperity before the Portuguese the Dutch and the English had diverted the majority of the Europe supply to the newly discovered route by the Cape of Good Hope. [...] 2. Again the =i►s is seen above to be the eight's part of the ordinary inch or iesahr2 ; As the Jo or gams of the Hindus is the eighth of their angel: and the line of Europeans is the eighth of their inch : it is in fact the vulgar subdivision by two and two both of the unit of measure and of time. [...] which is the 330th day of the Jelalian (14th Feb.) particularly from Fartak to Zofar ; the signs of land being near arc the birds Dhofaile and Koraik4 and of the sea beasts or fishes ; the Tabbeika5 and Levik and of the maritime plants the.Kirmith7. [...]. The time of performing this voyage is from the 10th of the Yazdajedian year to the GOth (7th Nov.-27th Dec.) that is to say from the 242nd day of the Jelalian year to the 290th ; but you must continually go tacking because the wind which is at this time of the year the mosoon A::1) blows very strong ; if it is impossible to pursue your course tacking you must wait till the wind grows [...] God be your guide ! What is said of Indian whirlpools is all a tale except the whirlpools in the gulph of Joked and in the Barbarian channel near Kardafdn where ships falling in are unavoidably lost ; the causes of it are the heavy waves the strong winds the currents and the breakers of the coast so that it is impossible for the ship either to hold the sea or to land on the shore if God does