no more descriptions of harbours or places because nothing is known of the sea-coast beyond this point.” [Bohn’s _Transl._] According to Gosselin, the Southern Horn corresponds with the Southern Cape of Bandel-caus, where commences the desert coast of Ajan, the ancient +Azania+. According to the _Periplûs_ Cape +Arômata+ marked the termination of +Barbaria+ and the beginning of +Azania+. Ptolemy however distinguishes them differently, defining the former as the interior and the latter as the sea-board of the region to which these names were applied. The description of the Eastern Coast of Africa which now follows is carried, as has been already noticed, as far as +Rhapta+, a place about 6 degrees South of the Equator, but which Vincent places much farther South, identifying it with Kilwa. The places named on this line of coast are: a promontory called +Tabai+, a Khersonesos; +Opônê+, a mart; the Little and the Great +Apokopa+; the Little and the Great Coast; the +Dromoi+ or courses of +Azania+ (first that of +Serapiôn+, then that of +Nikôn+); a number of rivers; a succession of anchorages, seven in number; the +Paralaoi+ islands; a strait or canal; the island of +Menouthias+; and then +Rhapta+, beyond which, as the author conceived, the ocean curved round Africa until it met and amalgamated with the Hesperian or Western Ocean. 13. If, on sailing from +Tabai+, you follow the coast of the peninsula _formed by the promontory_, you are carried by the force of a strong current to another mart 400 stadia distant, called +Opônê+, which imports the commodities already mentioned, but produces most abundantly cinnamon, spice, _motô_, slaves of a very superior sort, chiefly for the Egyptian market, and tortoise-shell of small size but in large quantity and of the finest quality known. (13) Tabai, to which the inhabitants of the Great Cape fled for refuge on the approach of a storm, cannot, as Vincent and others have supposed, be Cape Orfui, for it lay at too great a distance for the purpose. The projection is meant which the Arabs call Banna. [Or, Tabai may be identified with Râs Shenarif, lat. 11° 40´ N.] Tabai, Müller suggests, may be a corruption for Tabannai.