[Footnote 269: Meaning Abassi, Abyssinia, or Habash. - E.]
[Footnote 270: The cape on the Arabian shore is called Arrah-morah, or
of St Anthony, and that on the African Jebul al Mondub, or Mandab,
which signifies the Mountain of Lamentation, as formerly explained
respecting Bab-al-Mandub, the name of the straits - E.]
[Footnote 271: In Arabic Al Bab is the gate, and Al Abwah the gates.
By the Turks it is called Bab Bogazi, a general name for all straits;
and the babs by the English sailors. - Ast.]
[Footnote 272: Rather Roban or Ruban. - Ast.]
[Footnote 273: The island of Prin. - E.]
Besides this channel of the Arabians[274], there are many others by
which we may safely enter the straits; but we shall only mention one
other, which they called the channel of Abyssinia, between the Island
of the Gates, or Prin, and the promontory opposite to Possidium,
which is on the Abyssinian shore, and is about five leagues broad; but
in this space there are six great high islands, which being seen by
sailors while without the straits are apt to put them in fear that there
is no passage that way; but between all these islands there are large
channels of great depth all of which may be taken without danger, or
leaving them all on the right hand, we may pass in safety between them
and the coast of Abyssinia.
