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the northern point of the Luft and Goram Channel. After passing this
point three miles is a mosque, and an old ruined house.

Peypusht.
Peypusht is a small village, rearly a mile inland, where some cattle
and poultry may be obtained. It is six and a half miles from the
mosque.
Zanobee.
Zanobee is a village, where cattle and poultry may be procured.
It contains about one hundred inhabitants. It is about two and a half
miles from Peypusht, and nearly a mile and a half inland.

Durgaum.
Durgaum is a fishing village, on the beach, six and a half miles
from Zanobee; it has about one hundred and twenty families, very
poor.
Kisiim.
The north point of the island of Kishm is in lat. 26° 59' 30' N., long.
56° 14' E. Off it are two islets, and here is a place where vessels of
three or four hundred tons might, in case of necessity, be hauled on
shore to repair.
Town of Kisiim.
The town of Kishm is in lat. 26° 57' 10' N., long. 56° 18' 50" E. It
is the principal town on the island, and contains about two thousand
inhabitants. It has little trade, but is frequented by the trading vessels
passing up and down the Gulf. Most of its inhabitants are sailors and
fishermen: the former employ themselves on board the vessels belong­
ing to Muskat, and other parts of the Gulf. A number of villages in
various parts of the island are under the government of the Shaikh of
this place. It was here, during the panic consequent on Captain
Thompson’s failure at Beni Boo Ali, the troops were removed, and
were perched on a rock, where I have known a thermometer to burst at
160° when suspended to a tent rope. After five or six officers, and half
the men, had died, they were removed to Sallack. The anchorage is
good in a north-wester, but a chopping sea comes in with a south­
easter ; a bank runs in front of the town.
Island of Larrack.
The island of Larrack is in lat. 26° 53' 30" N., long. 54° 25' 10" E.
The fort is on the north side; the island has water on it, and is barren.
Good anchorage may be found under it in a north-wester or south­
easter.
Bunder Shusa.
Bunder Shusa is a small bay, twelve miles from the point off Kishm

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