A New History of the EastIndies Author:Cope Subtitle: With Brief Observations on the Religion, Customs, Manners and Trade of the Inhabitants. ... With a Map of the Country, and Several Other Copper-Plates, ... by Captain Cope General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1754 Original Publisher: printed for M. Cooper; W. Reeve, and C. Sympson Subjects: History / Unit... more »ed States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAP. VIII. Gives a Defcription ofZeylz's Sea-coaft, and of a Part of Ethiopia, Zuakin and Upper Egypt. BU T to return again to Cape Guardafoy, from thence up to Zeyla is about one hundred and twenty Leagues. The Coaft is inhofpitable as well as the People. There are only two Places in all that Trac t that affords frefh Water, one is a little to the b'aftward of Mount . Felix, but in Ara- bick it is called Baba-fileck, or, The Mountain of Camels, where there is a fmall frefh Water River; the other is called Kkagi ten Leagues more Wefterly ; it may be eafily known by the Side of a Hill clofe to the Sea, whofe North Afpect is of white Sand, that fhews at a Diftance like a Sail, but may be feen in that Figure ten Leagues off. Several Ships from India, that have been neceffitated to call at thofe Places for Water, have been cut off; and one poor Man they furprized with his own Boat that he fent for Water. The Boat's Crew were furprized whiift filling Water, them they killed, except two Boys whom they faved ; they then came off in the Night, and thofe in the Ship not examining them in Time, they boarded the Ship, and took them all unarmed, and killed every Man, and carrying the Ship clofe to the Shore, they unladed her, and then funk her. The two Youths who gave the Account of that tragical Accide...« less