But If You Go Too Far Behind The Hill On The
Larboard Hand, Which Resembles An Old Barn, You Shall Then Have Thirty
And Forty Fathoms.
St Augustine is in lat 23 deg.
30' S. the var. being 15 deg.
40'.[108]
[Footnote 108: Long. 44 deg. 20' E. from Greenwich. - E.]
We sailed from St Augustine on the 23d June, directing our course for
the island of Mohelia, and on the 3d July we had sight of an island
called Juan, nine or ten leagues E. by S. from Mohelia. We came also
this day to anchor at Mohelia, between it and some broken land off its
southern side. We had here great abundance of refreshments, and very
cheap; for we bought five bullocks in exchange for one Levant sword, and
had goats, hens, pine-apples, cocoa-nuts, plantains, oranges, lemons,
and limes, for trifles worth little. Such bullocks as we had for money
cost a dollar each, or ten pieces of 4-1/2d.; at which rate we
purchased forty-one beeves. The natives of this island are chiefly Moors
[negroes], but there are Arabians, Turks, and others also among them;
and they are much engaged in wars with the people of Juan, [Hinznan or
Johanna,] and Comoro islands in their neighbourhood. They told us that
the king of the island died the day we arrived, being succeeded by his
son, Phanehomale, who was only of tender years, and was to reign under
the protection of the queen his mother.
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