(32) Returning to the mainland the narrative conducts us next to +Moskha+, a seaport trading with +Kanê+, and a wintering place for vessels arriving late in the season from Malabar and the Gulf of Khambât. The distance of this place from Suagros is set down at upwards of 1,100 stadia, 600 of which represent the breadth of a bay which begins at the Cape, and is called +Omana Al-Kamar+. The occurrence of the two names Omana and Moskha in such close connexion led D’Anville to suppose that +Moskha+ is identical with +Maskat+, the capital of +Oman+, the country lying at the south-east extremity of Arabia, and hence that Ras-el-Ḥad, beyond which Maskat lies, must be Cape Suagros. This supposition is, however, untenable, since the identification of Moskha with the modern +Ausera+ is complete. For, in the first place, the Bay of Seger, which begins at Cape Fartak, is of exactly the same measurement across to Cape Thurbot Ali as the Bay of +Omana+, and again the distance from Cape Thurbot Ali [lat. 16° 38´ N., long. 53° 3´ E.] to Ras-al-Sair, the +Ausara+ of Ptolemy, corresponds almost as exactly to the distance assigned by our author from the same Cape to +Moskha+. Moreover Pliny (XII. 35) notices that one particular kind of incense bore the name of _Ausaritis_, and, as the _Periplûs_ states that +Moskha+ was the great emporium of the incense trade, the identification is satisfactory. There was another Moskha on this coast which was also a port. It lay to the west of Suagros, and has been identified with +Koshîn+ [lat. 15° 21´ N. long. 51° 39´ E.]. Our author, though correct in his description of the coast, may perhaps have erred in his nomenclature; and this is the more likely to have happened as it scarcely admits of doubt that he had no personal knowledge of South Arabia beyond +Kanê+ and Cape +Suagros+. Besides no other author speaks of an Omana so far to westward as the position assigned to the Bay of that name. The tract immediately beyond +Moskha+ or Ausera is low and fertile, and is called +Dofar+ or +Zhafâr+, after a famous city now destroyed, but whose ruins are still to be traced between Al-hâfâh and Addahariz. “This Dhafâr,” says Yule (_Marco Polo_ II. p. 442 note) “or the bold fountain above it, is supposed to be the +Sephar+ of _Genesis_ X. 30.” It is certain that the Himyarites had spread their dominion as far eastward as this place. Marco Polo thus describes Dhafâr:—“It stands upon the sea, and has a very good haven, so that there is a great traffic of shipping between this and India; and the merchants take hence great numbers of Arab horses to that market, making great profits thereby.... Much white incense is produced here, and I will tell you how it grows. The trees are like small fir-trees; these are notched with a knife in several places, and from these notches the incense is exuded. Sometimes, also, it flows from the tree without any notch, this is by reason of the great heat