The island is said in the _Periplûs_ to extend towards the West, but this does not hold good either in the case of Zangibar or any other island in this part of the coast. Indeed there is no one of them in which at the present day all the characteristics of +Menouthias+ are found combined. +Momfia+, for instance, which resembles it somewhat in name, and which, as modern travellers tell us, is almost entirely occupied with birds and covered with their dung, does not possess any streams of water. These are found in Zangibar. The author may perhaps have confusedly blended together the accounts he had received from his Arab informants. 16. At the distance of a two days’ sail from this island lies the last of the marts of +Azania+, called +Rhapta+, a name which it derives from the sewn boats just mentioned. Ivory is procured here in the greatest abundance, and also turtle. The indigenous inhabitants are men of huge stature, who live _apart from each other_, every man ruling like a lord his own domain. The whole territory is governed by the despot of +Mopharitis+, because the sovereignty over it, by some right of old standing, is vested in the kingdom of what is called the First Arabia. The merchants of +Mouza+ farm its revenues from the king, and employ in trading with it a great many ships of heavy burden, on board of which they have Arabian commanders and factors who are intimately acquainted with the natives and have contracted marriage with them, and know their language and the navigation of the coast.