or BALIUR, a sea-port of Africa in the kingdom kingdom of Dancali, about 14 hours journey west from Babel-Mandel. It is remarkable only for being the landing place of the Abyssinian patriarch Alphonsus Mendez, with his Jesuits and Portuguese, on April 3rd 1724. 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. 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 one side.