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Updated: May 13, 2025
In this connection a typical incident may be mentioned as illustrating the sort of thing we were up against. The ship I was serving in at the time lay off Jeddah and had three boats down picketing the dhow-channels leading in to that reef-girt harbour, for which dhows were making like homing bees.
For fifteen years he had climbed the hill and gazed beyond the reef-girt shore at the broad sea in the vain hope of descrying a sail. He always heaved a sigh of disappointment when he swept the sailless ocean with his glass.
"We must get the provisions and tools from off the wreck," he said, "and make our stay here as comfortable as possible. "How long will that stay be?" she asked. "God in heaven alone can tell." "Surely some passing ship will see us." He hoped so; but that reef-girt shore seemed to forbid the approach of a vessel.
Good money is paid at Cowes to see no more spirited sailing we had to put a shot across the bows of the leading dhow before they would abandon the race. There was always trouble off Jeddah the approaches to that reef-girt harbour lend themselves to blockade-running dhows with sound local knowledge on board.
We ran before a nine-knot breeze, and shortly before noon, after two hours' southing, we were off the half-way house, reef-girt Dog Island, and Dog Point, in the Barra country. The dull green stream sparkled in the sun, and the fringe of mangroves appeared deciduous: some trees were bare, as if dead; others were clothed with bright foliage.
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