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

JAINAPATAN, a sea-port town, seated at the north-east end of the island of Ceylon in the East Indies. The Dutch took it from the Portuguese in 1618, and have continued in the possession of it since that time. They export from thence great quantities of tobacco, and some elephants, which are accounted the most docile of any in the whole world. E. Long. 80° 25' N. Lat. 9° 35'.