CHAP. II.
Directions to Travellers for preserving Health—Diseases of the Country—Music—Trade, &c. of Masuah—Conferences with the Naybe.
We arrived in the island at eight o'clock, to the great joy of our servants, who were afraid of some stratagem of the Naybe. We got every thing in order, without interruption, and completed our observations upon this inhospitable island, infamous for the quantity of Christian blood shed there upon treacherous pretences.
Masuah, by a great variety of observations of the sun and stars, we found to be in lat. 15° 35′ 5″, and, by an observation of the second satellite of Jupiter, on the 22d of September 1769, we found its longitude to be 39° 36′ 30″ east of the meridian of Greenwich: the variation of the needle was observed at mid-day, the 23d of September, to be 12° 48′. W. From this it follows, that Loheia, being nearly opposite, (for it is in lat. 15° 40′ 52″) the breadth of the Red Sea between Masuah and Loheia is 4° 10′ 22″. Supposing, then, a degree to be equal to 66° statute miles, this, in round numbers, will bring the
