[91]. The Highlands were Jebel el Hirab, the ‘Mountain of the Keel,’ because it appears like a huge dow upturned. It rises some 9 to 10 miles from the seaboard, and backs the Ponta das Baixas or Ra’as Aswad.
[92]. Ra’as Aswad in N. lat. 4° 44′ 5″ (Raper).
[93]. Still generally written Doara. It is apparently a mere Nullah or Fiumara, and is hardly mentioned by modern navigators. I can only suggest that the name might have been derived from Daaro, a district or tribe on the Upper Juba river, and the inveterate confusion of the potamology in this part of Africa can alone account for the error.
[94]. N. lat. 2° 2′ 18″ (Capt. Guillain).
[95]. Marka town, N. lat. 1° 44′ 1″, generally known as Bandar Marka.
[96]. Probably from Goba, the meeting (scil. of waters), Gobwen (corrupted to Govind) meaning the great meeting. Ganana is supposed to mean division or bifurcation. Danok is probably a corruption of the Galla Danesha, a settlement on the left bank of the river. I nowhere find my notice of the ‘Irunjba’ village, and presume that it is a corruption of ‘Gobwen.’
[97]. This reef, beginning at Makdishu, much resembles the great Brazilian formation, extending from Pernambuco southward.
[98]. The voyagers had now passed from the barren Somali Coast (Azania) to rich Zanzibar, where the tropical rains extend.
[99]. The cause of the dryness was the immense evaporation which the coolness of night deposited in the form of dew.
[100]. Mombasah.