27. To +Eudaimôn Arabia+ at once succeeds a great length of coast and a bay extending 2,000 stadia or more, inhabited by nomadic tribes and Ikhthyophagoi settled in villages. On doubling a cape which projects from it you come to another trading seaport, +Kanê+, which is subject to +Eleazos+, king of the incense country. Two barren islands lie opposite to it, 120 stadia off—one called +Orneôn+, and the other +Troullas+. At some distance inland from +Kanê+ is +Sabbatha+, the principal city of the district, where the king resides. At +Kanê+ is collected all the incense that is produced in the country, this being conveyed to it partly on camels, and partly _by sea_ on floats supported on inflated skins, a local invention, and also in boats. +Kanê+ carries on trade with ports across the ocean—+Barugaza+, +Skythia+, and +Omana+, and the adjacent coast of +Persis+. (27) The coast beyond Aden is possessed partly by wandering tribes, and partly by tribes settled in villages which subsist on fish. Here occurs a bay—that now called Ghubhet-al-Kamar, which extends upwards of 2,000 stadia, and ends in a promontory—that now called Râs-al-Asîdah or Bâ-l-hâf [lat. 13° 58´ N., long 48° 9´ S.—a cape with a hill near the fishing village of Gillah]. Beyond this lies another great mart called +Kanê+. It is mentioned by Pliny, and also by Ptolemy, who assigns it a position in agreement with the indications given in the _Periplûs_. It has been identified with the port now called Hisn Ghorâb [lat. 14° 0´ N. long. 48° 19´ E.]. Not far from this is an island called Halanî, which answers to the +Troullas+ of our author. Further south is another island, which is called by the natives of the adjacent coast +Sikkah+, but by sailors Jibûs. This is covered with the dung of birds which in countless multitudes have always frequented it, and may be therefore identified with the +Orneôn+ of the _Periplûs_. +Kanê+ was subject to Eleazos, the king of the Frankincense Country, who resided at +Sabbatha+, or as it is called by Pliny (VI. xxxii. 155) +Sabota+, the capital of the Atramitae or Adramitae, a tribe of Sabæans from whom the division of Arabia now known as Hadhramaut takes its name. The position of this city cannot be determined with certainty. Wellsted, who proceeded into the interior from the coast near Hisn Ghorab through Wadi Meifah, came after a day’s journey and a half to a place called Nakb-el-Hajar, situated in a highly cultivated district, where he found ruins of an ancient city of the Himyarites crowning an eminence that rose gently with a double summit from the fertile plain. The city appeared to have been built in the most solid style of architecture, and to have been protected by a very lofty wall formed of square blocks of black marble, while the inscriptions plainly betokened that it was an old seat of the Himyarites. A close similarity could be traced between its ruins and those of