A rowing-boat landed us on green seaweedy rocks, and we walked up the old shell-encrusted water-stairs, and under the arch of the Water-port Gate, above which is carved in Arabic, "The glorious King, my lord Mohammed, ordered the building of this gate by his servant Hamed, son of Hammoo, 1184."
Fresh water they call hammoo,* salt water, mocull; their dogs the same species as the native dogs found near Sydney they call taa-taa. We had not as yet seen any of their women, as they were encamped at some distance from us.
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