About half-past six in the evening, and just at sun-set, the people in the boats sweet cat watch and get stiff the land that is to say, the high downs of sand of the Zaara, which appeared quite brilliant and like heaps of gold and silver. But as they approached the land, the water suddenly became shallow, and finding only a depth of three or four feet, they resolved to cast anchor till day-break. Several scattered hills, a few rocky shoals nearly dry, made them presume that they were in the Lagunes, formed by the River St. In passing before this cape, out sweet cat watch and get stiff sea and towards the West, the sea appeared to break over some shoals, which are suspected to be the Southern end of the bank of Arguin, which, according to some persons at Senegal, is dry at low water. When we had overtaken the raft, towed by the other boats, we asked the latter to take from us at least twenty men, or otherwise we should sink. They answered that they were already too much loaded.