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KAEESE AND HINDERABIA.
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Dr. Vincent was right in suspecting this arrangement, and in call
ing in question the accuracy of M'Cluer, with regard to names;
though he modestly expresses himself as not qualified to decide.
The town of Charrack is, as he conceived it ought to be, to the
westward of this Cape, and close to the eastern foot of the hill from
which it derives, or to which it gives its name. This, it is true,
is still to the eastward of Kaeese, but not so far as to prevent its
being called, in a general way,' opposite to the island.' The town
of Tawoone is nearest to the island on the east, and Kallat-el-
Abeed, so called from an old castle in the mountains above, in
which some rebel slaves defended themselves, is the nearest to it
on the west. Between this and Cheroo another town was named
to us, called Goorezy; but this we did not clearly perceive. Among
them all, however, a position might be selected for Siraff, which
would accord accurately enough with its vicinity to Kaeese, if other
circumstances indicated either its name or its remains theie.
Heather, on the authority of M'Cluer, places the islands of
Kaeese and Hinderabia, at about fifteen miles distant from each
other; but it appears that this navigator subsequently stated to
Mr. Dalrymple, that he had altered the situation of Hinderabia, as
he found it too near to Kenn ; and actually extends the distance
from twelve to twenty geographical miles, without stating what
after-discovery had led to this correction. The illustrator of
Nearchus's voyages very naturally congratulates himself on this
alteration, since it corresponds more accurately with the twenty-
five miles assigned to the distance between them by Arnan; and
expresses great satisfaction in finding that the more correct the
modern chart is, the better it corresponds with the details of his
author The alternative which D'Anville has chosen, however, of
making the anchorage of the fleet at the eastern end of Kataia so
as to include the length of that island in the four hundred s adia
of the run from Kataia to Ha, still remains: and if it be allow
able to choose the most convenient end of one island for the pom
of departure; so it may equally be permitted to make the point
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