(15) After leaving +Opônê+ the coast first runs due south, then bends to the south-west, and here begins the coast which is called the Little and the Great +Apokopa+ or Bluffs of +Azania+, the voyage along which occupies six days. This rocky coast, as we learn from recent explorations, begins at +Râs Mabber+ [about lat. 9° 25´ N.], which is between 70 and 80 miles distant from Ras Hafûn and extends only to +Râs-ul-Kheil+ [about lat. 7° 45´ N.], which is distant from Râs Mabber about 140 miles or a voyage of three or four days only. The length of this rocky coast (called +Hazine+ by the Arabs) is therefore much exaggerated in the _Periplûs_. From this error we may infer that our author, who was a very careful observer, had not personally visited this coast. Ptolemy, in opposition to Marînos as well as the _Periplûs_, recognizes but one +Apokopa+, which he speaks of as a bay. Müller concludes an elaborate note regarding the +Apokopa+ by the following quotation from the work of Owen, who made the exploration already referred to, “It is strange that the descriptive term +Hazine+ should have produced the names +Ajan+, +Azan+ and +Azania+ in many maps and charts, as the country never had any other appellation than +Barra Somâli+ or the land of the +Somâli+, a people who have never yet been collected under one government, and whose limits of subjection are only within bow-shot of individual chiefs. The coast of Africa from the Red Sea to the river Juba is inhabited by the tribe called +Somâli+. They are a mild people of pastoral habits and confined entirely to the coast; the whole of the interior being occupied by an untameable tribe of savages called +Galla+.” The coast which follows the +Apokopa+, called the Little and the Great +Aigialos+ or Coast, is so desolate that, as Vincent remarks, not a name occurs on it, neither is there an anchorage noticed, nor the least trace of commerce to be found. Yet it is of great extent—a six days’ voyage according to the _Periplûs_, but, according to Ptolemy, who is here more correct, a voyage of eight days, for, as we have seen, the _Periplûs_ has unduly extended the +Apokopa+ to the South.