On Cutting A Bough Or Leaf There Run Out A
Great Stream Of Milk, As From The Dug Of A Goat.
On all this coast I saw
no other trees, except a grove a little beyond Massua, in some marshy
ground near the sea.
Besides these trees, there are some valleys inland
producing a few capers, the leaves of which are eaten by the Moors, who
say they be appropriate to the joynts. On the 4th of April, from
sunrise till eleven o'clock, the wind blew a storm from the N.W. after
which there was much and loud thunder, accompanied with hail, the stones
being the largest I ever saw. With the thunder the wind veered about to
every point of the compass, and at last it settled in the north. This
day I carried my instruments on shore, when I found the variation 1-1/4
degree north-east[297], and the latitude by many observations 22 deg. N.
Though these observations were made on shore with great care, so that I
never stirred the instrument when once set till the end of my
observations, I am satisfied there must be some error; because the great
heat cracked the plate of ivory in the middle, so that there remained a
great cleft as thick as a gold portague. On the 6th, an hour before
day, we weighed from the port of Ras-al-Jidid, and advanced about
three and a half leagues. The 7th in the morning, the wind blew fresh at
N.W. and we rowed to the shore, where at eight o'clock we fastened our
barks to certain stones of a shoal or reef, lying before a long point
which hereafter I shall name Starta.
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