Both sides of our course a prodigious number
of shelves; we were therefore obliged to take in our sails and use our
oars, by means of which we came about sunset to a good haven named
Comol, in which we anchored.
[Footnote 295: This paragraph is likewise obscurely worded, and is
perhaps left imperfect by the abbreviator. - Astl.]
[Footnote 296: In some subsequent passages this harbour is called
Igidid, probably to distinguish it from the point of Ras-al-Jidid. - Astl.]
[Footnote 297: It is therefore probable that in all the bearings set
down in this voyage, when applied to practice, either for the uses of
geography or navigation, this allowance of 1-1/4 too much to the east
ought to be deducted. - E.]
From a point two leagues beyond the harbour of Igidid, or
Ras-al-Jidid, to another very long and flat point may be about four
leagues, these two points bearing N.W. and S.E. between which there is a
large bay; within which towards the long point at the N.W. is a deep
haven so close on all sides that it is safe from every wind. This point
is an island; from which circumstance and its latitude it seems
certainly the island named Starta by Ptolomy. From thence to a great
point of land over the harbour of Comol the distance may be five
leagues; these two points bearing N.W. by W. and S.E. by E. and between
them is a large fair bay.
