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MEMOIll ON 13AIIREYN. 45

“ Once upon a time there was only one' spring on the’Island, which
was situated not far from the present site of the Minarets ; that a bc-
sciging army coming up from the S.W. proposed, previous to attack­
ing the place with arms, to block up the spring, and thus cut off the
supply of water from the inhabitants. In this they had hardly sue-
cccdcd, when the water burst out in all the other springs now known,
on and about the Island ; and they point out a Musjid built, as they
say, on the mound formed by the filling up of the .original spring.”
: I landed several times on the Fasht-cl-Yarrom to erect a (lag as a
mark for sounding the channel, and placed it on a rocky patch which
was supposed by officers, who have previously reported its existence, to
be the remains of a fort; but I could see no traces of anything like a
building, although the natives say, that there was not only a fort, but'
that two (2) date trees grew there at one time; and.they affirm that
there is also a fresh-water spring in the vicinity. It is known by the
name of Jcllahat-cl-Yarrom, and bears from the Portuguese Port, N. !)°,
W. 12* (true, i.c. not magnetic), distant 23,283 yards. The nearest ap­
proach to it is under ltas-cl-S’lah, forming the northern side of the western
entrance to the Khauv-cl-Bab. Before leaving the station, I built a-
pyramid on the rocky patch, six feet above the level of high water
mark.
I was unable to find any mark for entering the Khaur-cl-Bab from
the S.E., the pilot in beating from Bahreyn, invariably beat past the
entrance—looking out for the Portuguese Port coming in transit with
Jibbul Dukhan, the vessel being then on the edge of the Yarrom: lie
then bore up about south, and rounded, what lie called, the Jah’doom,
being guided, as far as I could see, entirely by the soundings.
The ground north of the Portuguese Port is very foul, with overfalls,
and the pilots never borrow on that side of the harbour on that account:
they call it all Ley ah, from the rocky patch that is dry at low water,
of that name.
1 "As I have been in and out of Bahreyn Harbour several times, I feel
authorised, from-my experience, to make the following remarks:—Psctccu
High Tree in transit with the western extreme of Jibbul Dukhan, or-
Gallali Tower south (or on with u clump of date trees to the south
called Zimmcc), appears to clear all dangers to the eastward of the
Yarrom. This edge, ns reported by Lieut. Constable, is very badly
defined, and is dangerous in making the Port in thick weather, ns it is
* almost out of sight of land,