"مختارات من سجلات حكومة بومباي" [‎٤‎٦] (٧٣٣/٨٥)

ISLAND OF KENN.
H aving lately proceeded to the island of Kenn, we have the honour
to submit the following Report, in which the several quarters of the island
aie separately described, as represented in the accompanying Sketch
namely,— 1 ' '
A. THE A\EST, NORTH-WEST, AND SOUTH-WEST SIDES.
This part contains three villages, built near date plantations; one is
near the south-west point, and is called Bank; another at the north
west, Suffecl; the third does not appear to bear any name, and is about
midway between the other two; the distance between these two
extremes being nearly three and a quarter miles.
These villages are provided with wells, which supply the population,
and also irrigate the grain fields and date frees. Some of the water is
good ; the remainder is indifferent, and mostly brackish.
I'he country for about three miles in their vicinity is moderately
elevated above the sea, and nearly level, as it ascends very gradually
om the sea coast to the central and higher part of the island. It is
partially covered with trees, which are more numerous inland, and the
ground is also clearer on the coast, having only small tufts of coarse
giass, the inland part being rocky and stony.
The coast is of a bluff and rocky nature, with some small sandy bays •
but being bounded by a rocky shelf, dry in many places at low"-water,
and which extends not less than a quarter of a mile, tolerable landing
is afforded in these bays at high-water only, for light boats, and that
in moderate weather.
There is no good anchorage for ships off this part of the island, the
bottom being coarse sand, with patches of coral. It is exposed to
a heavy sweH during a moderate north-west wind, but may be safe to
appioach to eight or ten fathoms, a mile and a quarter or a mile and a
half off shore.