The articles locally produced for export are ivory, tortoise-shell, and rhinoceros. Most of the goods which supply the market arrive any time from January to September—that is, from Tybi to Thôth. The best season, however, for ships from Egypt to put in here is about the month of September. 7. From this bay the Arabian Gulf trends eastward, and at +Aualitês+ is contracted to its narrowest. At a distance of about 4000 stadia (_from Adouli_), if you still sail along the same coast, you reach other marts of +Barbaria+, called the marts beyond (_the Straits_), which occur in successive order, and which, though harbourless, afford at certain seasons of the year good and safe anchorage. The first district you come to is that called +Aualitês+, where the passage across the strait to the opposite point of Arabia is shortest. Here is a small port of trade, called, like the district, +Aualitês+, which can be approached only by little boats and rafts. The imports of this place are— Ὑαλὴ λίθια σύμμικτος—Flint glass of various sorts. Χυλός] Διοσπολιτικῆς ὄμφακος—Juice of the sour grape of Diospolis. Ἰμάτια βαρβαρικὰ σύμμικτα γεγναμμένα—Cloths of different kinds worn in Barbaria dressed by the fuller. Σῖτος—Corn. Οἶνος—Wine. Κασσιτερος ὀλίγος—A little tin. The exports, which are sometimes conveyed on rafts across the straits by the +Berbers+ themselves to +Okêlis+ and +Mouza+ on the opposite coast, are— Ἀρώματα—Odoriferous gums. Ἐλέφας ὀλίγος—Ivory in small quantity. Χελώνη—Tortoise-shell. Σμύρνα ἐλαχίστη διαφέρουσα δὲ τῆς ἄλλης—Myrrh in very small quantity, but of the finest sort. Μάκειρ—Macer. The barbarians forming the population of the place are _rude and_ lawless men.