heard of the river which is called Kude. And as
we were sitting we heard the voice of children; and we saw a
vessel, the like to which in size we never saw before. And we saw
the king of Eeaurie send cattle and sheep, and a variety of
vegetables, in great abundance. And there were two men and one
woman, and two slaves; and they tied them in the vessel. There were
410 also in the vessel two white men, of the race called Christians:
and the Sultan of Eeaurie called aloud to them, to come out of the
vessel, but they would not. They proceeded to the country of Busa,
which is greater than that of the Sultan of Eeaurie. And as they
were sitting in the vessel, they hung[232], or were stopped by the
cape, or head-land of Kude."

[Footnote 232: Probably by an impetuous current.]

"And the people of the sultan of Busa called to them, and poured
their arms into the vessel; and the vessel reached the head-land or
cliff, and became attached or fixed to the head of the mountain or
projection in the river, and could not pass it. Then the men and
women of Busa collected themselves hostilely together, with arms of
all descriptions; and the vessel being unable to clear the
head-land, the man in the vessel killed his wife, and threw the
whole of her property into the river; they then threw themselves
into the river through fear. The news of this occurrence was then
conveyed to the Sultan Wawee, until it reached, by water, the
territory of Kanjee, in the country of the Sultan Wawee. And we
buried it in its earth; and one of them we saw not at all in the
water. And God knows the truth of this report from the mouth of the
Shereef Ibrahim. The end."

411 OBSERVATION.

After giving the foregoing translation, it behoves me to inform the
intelligent reader, that I wrote a letter to Mr. Bowdich,
communicating to him my observations on several notes, transmitted
to him by Sir William Ouseley, on the manuscript of which the
foregoing is a translation, in which I informed him, that in
decyphering the Arabic manuscript, I had observed the Oriental or
Asiatic punctuation; knowing that Mr. Bulmer had not letters with
the occidental punctuation. Several observations I made, respecting
the Arabic manuscripts which could not be elucidated here without
the Arabic type. I sha