[41] The name of the Arabii is variously written,—Arabitæ, Arbii, Arabies, Arbies, Aribes, Arbiti. The name of their river has also several forms,—Arabis, Arabius, Artabis, Artabius. It is now called the +Purâli+, the river which flows through the present district of Las into the bay of Soumiyâni. The name of the Oreitai in Curtius is Horitæ. Cunningham identifies them with the people on the Aghor river, whom he says the Greeks would have named Agoritæ or Aoritæ, by the suppression of the guttural, of which a trace still remains in the initial aspirate of ‘Horitæ.’ Some would connect the name with +Haur+, a town which lay on the route to Firabaz, in Mekran. [42] This name Sangada, D’Anville thought, survived in that of a race of noted pirates who infested the shores of the gulf of Kachh, called the +Sangadians+ or Sangarians. [43] “The pearl oyster abounds in 11 or 12 fathoms of water all along the coast of Scinde. There was a fishery in the harbour of Kurrachee which had been of some importance in the days of the native rulers.”—_Wanderings of a Naturalist in India_, p. 36. [44] This island is not known, but it probably lay near the rocky headland of Irus, now called +Manora+, which protects the port of Karâchi from the sea and bad weather. [45] “The name of Morontobara,” says Cunningham, “I would identify with Muâri, which is now applied to the headland of Râs Muâri or Cape Monze, the last point of the Pab range of mountains. _Bâra_, or _Bâri_, means roadstead or haven; and Moranta is evidently connected with the Persian _Mard_ a man, of which the feminine is still preserved in Kâśmîrî as _Mahrin_ a woman. From the distances given by Arrian, I am inclined to fix it at the mouth of the +Bahar+ rivulet, a small stream which falls into the sea about midway between Cape Monze and Sonmiyâni.” _Women’s Haven_ is mentioned by Ptolemy and Ammianus Marcellinus. There is in the neighbourhood a mountain now called +Mor+, which may be a remnant of the name Morontobari. The channel through which the fleet passed after leaving this place no longer exists, and the island has of course disappeared. [46] The coast from Karâchi to the Purâli has undergone considerable changes, so that the position of the intermediate places cannot be precisely determined. “From Cape Monze to Sonmiyâni,” says Blair, “the coast bears evident marks of having suffered considerable alterations from the encroachments of the sea. We found trees which had been washed down, and which afforded us a supply of fuel. In some parts I saw imperfect creeks in a parallel direction with the coast. These might probably be the vestiges of that narrow channel through which the Greek galleys passed.”