JAFFATEEN ISLANDS, the name of four islands
in the Red sea, visited by Mr Bruce in his travels.
They are joined together by shoals or sunk rocks;
are crooked or bent like half a bow; and are dan-
gerous for ships in the night-time, because there seems
to be a passage between them, to which, while the pi-
lots are paying attention, they neglect two small sunk
rocks which lie almost in the middle of the entrance in
deep water.