or Baljur, a sea-port of Africa in the kingdom of Dancali, about 14 hours journey west from Babel-Mandel. It is remarkable only for being the landing place of the Abyssinian Patriarch Alphonfus Mendez, with his Jesuits and Portuguèse, on April 3, 1724. The king, who had received orders from the Abyssinian emperor to give them a proper reception, dispatched his son to meet them and conduct them to him. The royal palace they found to consist of about half a dozen of tents, and a score of huts, fenced about with a thorn hedge, and shaded by some wild kinds of trees. Near the palace was a river, which was then quite dried up, and no water to be found but what was dug for in the channel. The hall of audience was only a large tent about a musket-shot from the rest. At the upper end was a kind of throne made of stones and clay, covered with a carpet, and two velvet cushions. At the other end was his Majesty's horse, with the saddle and other accoutrements hanging on one side; it being the custom of this country for the master and horse to lie together, whether king or subject. Around the hall were about 50 young men sitting cross-legged; and when the Portuguèse ambassadors were admitted, they were made to sit down in the same posture. Soon after came the king, preceded by some of his domestics, one having an earthen pitcher full of hydromel, another a cup made of porcelain, a third carrying a cocoa shell full of tobacco, and a fourth bringing a silver tobacco-pipe with some fire. Next to them was the king, dressed in a light silk stuff, having on his head a turban, from the rims of which hung a parcel of rings nicely wrought, which dangled before his face. He had in his hand a short kind of javelin, and was followed by all the chief officers of his court and household. The respect paid him at his coming in was by standing on their feet, and squatting down again twice; after which they went forward to kiss his hand.