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can be seen twelve or thirteen miles off. This bay contains several
detached shoals, which render it unsafe to approach.
Has Tan no jib.
Has Tannojib is a high bluff point, in lat. 27° 50' 10" N., long.
48° 54' 33" E., and is fronted by reefs and broken patches, with some
deep boat channels among them.
It as Suffana.
Ras Suffana is a point of the coast forming the entrance to an inlet of
the same name, but cannot be approached except in boats; it is in
lat. 28° 0'40" N., long. 48° 35' 50" E.
Gebil.
Gebil is a mountain a few miles inland from Ras Mushab, and very
remarkable. It is in lat. 2S° 10' 55" N., long. 48° 26' E.
Ras Mushab.
Ras Mushab is in lat. 28° 11' 43" N., long. 48° 28' 53" E. It is
formed by two small, sandy, low islands;
Remarks on the Coast from Khore el Kuffagee to Ras Mushab.—
From Khore el Kuffagee to Ras Mushab this coast is safe and clear,
except two small shoals off the latter. In running down, after passing
Khore el Kuffagee, you should get into the stream of twelve fathoms, and
not come under until you reach Gebil, when it is necessary to keep out
to sea, and run out in the stream of eighteen fathoms, keeping a sharp
look-out ahead for shoal spots, the coast being fronted from Ras Mushab
to Ras-ool-Ghar with patches dry in many parts, and having deep
water between them ; but in some parts they do not show themselves.
It is dangerous to get near them with the wind blowing hard on the
shore, as a very heavy sea runs, and every winter numbers of the na­
tive vessels get wrecked about this dangerous part of the coast. The
northern part of this dangerous bank of shoals is in lat. about 28° 14' 30"
N., and long. 48° 45' 30" E., and continues without intermission to
Ras Baldana, which is a dry point of the reef in lat. 27° 52' N., long.
49° 9' 30" E. After this they become now detached, but it is unsafe to
come near the coast until you pass Ras-ool-Ghar, when it becomes now
clear, and you may near it to seven fathoms until you reach Ras Moo-
salame, from whence it will be necessary to keep out in eight fathoms
until you get near Ras Booally, from which a long spit extends. After
passing it, you may keep in any depth from eight to ten fathoms, until
you reach Ras Tannora, the north-western point of Kateef Bay.
Jezeerat Omalmaradain.
Jezeerat Omalmaradain is in lat. 2S° 40' 33" N., long. 4S° 34' 40‘ E.
It is low, and about one-third of a mile long. Off the end of it
is a