of the sun there.” Müller would identify +Moskha+ with Zhafâr, and accounts for the discrepancy of designation by supposing that our author had confounded the name +Maskat+, which was the great seat of the traffic in frankincense with the name of the greatest city in the district which actually produced it. A similar confusion he thinks transferred the name of Oman to the same part of the country. The climate of the incense country is described as being extremely unhealthy, but its unhealthiness seems to have been designedly exaggerated. 33. From the port of +Moskha+ onward to +Asikh+, a distance of about 1,500 stadia, runs a range of hills pretty close to the shore, and at its termination there are seven islands bearing the name of +Zenobios+, beyond which again we come to another barbarous district not subject to any power in Arabia, but to Persia. If when sailing by this coast you stand well out to sea so as to keep a direct course, then at about a distance from the island of +Zenobios+ of 2,000 stadia you arrive at another island, called that of +Sarapis+, lying off shore, say, 120 stadia. It is about 200 stadia broad and 600 long, possessing three villages inhabited by a _savage_ tribe of +Ikhthyophagoi+, who speak the Arabic language, and whose clothing consists of a girdle made from the leaves of the cocoa-palm. The island produces in great plenty tortoise of excellent quality, and the merchants of +Kanê+ accordingly fit out little boats and cargo-ships to trade with it.