Urbis ab angusto tractu quâ vergit in Austrum, Planities vicina patet: nam cætera Pontus Circuit, exiguo dirimi se tramite passus. C. CLAUD, IN RUF. lib. 2. 348. On Monday, January 5, 1857, began our trial trip, which homely term was justly written large as ‘tentative expedition,’ by the then President of the Royal Geographical Society. But a stiff north-easter blowing dead in our teeth, the crew of the Riámi would not wear round by day, and at night all showed a predilection for the ‘Safar khoriyah,’ i. e. anchoring in some snug bay. Consequently the old tub, with knees and mast loose like a slaver’s, did not make Kokoto-ni, the usual departure point from Zanzibar Island, till 7 A. M. on J…
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