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NAVIGATION OF THE

IConnaseer.
Ifonnaseer is a small village, inhabited by a few families of fishermen
and wood-cutters, about three quarters of a mile above Point Nakoona.’

Tursoo.
Tursoo is a large village, producing dates, vegetables,
and a few
supplies, a mile and a quarter from Konnaseer.

Channoo.
Channoo is a small village, about three and a half miles further up the
channel. The people, about seventy in number,
arc weavers and
wood-cutters.
Lucy’s Peak.
Lucy’s Peak is a remarkable peak about two miles inland, and five
and a quarter from the village of Channoo.

Goram.
Goram is a small village, said to have formerly been a Portugu ese
station, at the entrance of the straits of the same name ; it may be known
by an old mosque. There are some reservoirs, and after rain there is
plenty of good water here.
Luft.
Luft is a fortified village or town on the side of a hill, at the eastern
entrance of Khore Goram. It had several towers and a wall down one
side the hill, besides a Ghuree. Colonel Smith and Captain Wain-
right, in 1809, despising their enemy, thought to carry it at once by
escalade, but they were beaten off with considerable loss, and the men
obliged to lay on the beach, not being able to embark them for the
enemy’s fire. The Fury and other cruisers were now brought in, and
with the gunboats battered the place, when, after some time, it surren­
dered. Luft now contains only about two hundred inhabitants, has a
few boats, and is the residence of the principal Shaikh on the island.
It is in lat. 26° 53' N., long. 55° 51' 10" E.
Remarks on the Navigation, SfC. from Goram to Luft.—The whole
of the centre, between Kishm and the Persian Coast, is full of small
jungle islands, some having narrow channels, with six and eight
!
fathoms water, between them. Up these the wood boats go, and this
place supplies about three-fourths of the Gulf with firewood.

Inderabia. 1
miles from Luft, and belongs to the
Inderabia fort is about two
Iinaum of Muskat.
f? ! Inderabia Point is about a mile and a quarter from the fort, and is