(33) Beyond +Moskha+ the coast is mountainous as far as +Asikh+ and the islands of Zenobios—a distance excessively estimated at 1,500 stadia. The mountains referred to are 5,000 feet in height, and are those now called Subaha. +Asikh+ is readily to be identified with the +Hâsek+ of Arabian geographers. Edrisi (I. p. 54) says: “Thence (from Marbat) to the town of Hâsek is a four days’ journey and a two days’ sail. Before +Hâsek+ are the two islands of +Khartan+ and +Martan+. Above +Hâsek+ is a high mountain named +Sous+, which commands the sea. It is an inconsiderable town but populous.” This place is now in ruins, but has left its name to the promontory on which it stood [Râs Hâsek, lat. 17° 23´ N. long. 55° 20´ E. opposite the island of Hasiki]. The islands of +Zenobios+ are mentioned by Ptolemy as seven in number, and are those called by Edrisi +Khartan+ and +Martan+, now known as the +Kuriyân Muriyân+ islands. The inhabitants belonged to an Arab tribe which was spread from Hâsek to Râs-el-Ḥad, and was called +Beit+ or +Beni Jenabi+, whence the Greek name. M. Polo in the 31st chapter of his travels “discourseth of the two islands called Male and Female,” the position of which he vaguely indicates by saying that “when you leave the kingdom of +Kesmacoran+ (Mekran) which is on the mainland, you go by sea some 500 miles towards the south, and then you find the 2 islands Male and Female lying about 30 miles distant from one another.” (See also _Marco Polo_, vol. II. p. 396 note.) Beyond +Asikh+ is a district inhabited by barbarians, and subject not to Arabia but to Persis. Then succeeds at a distance of 200 stadia beyond the islands of +Zenobios+ the island of +Sarapis+, (the Ogyris of Pliny) now called Masira [lat. 20° 10´ to 20° 42´ N., long. 58° 37´ to 58° 59´ E.] opposite that part of the coast where Oman now begins. The _Periplûs_ exaggerates both its breadth and its distance from the continent. It was still inhabited by a tribe of fish-eaters in the time of Ebn Batuta, by whom it was visited. On proceeding from +Sarapis+ the adjacent coast bends round, and the direction of the voyage changes to north. The great cape which forms the south-eastern extremity of Arabia called +Ras-el-Had+ [lat. 22° 33´ N. long. 59° 48´ E.] is here indicated, but without being named; Ptolemy calls it +Korodamon+ (VI. vii. 11.) 34. If sailing onward you wind round with the adjacent coast to the north, then as you approach the entrance of the Persian Gulf you fall in with a group of islands which lie in a range along the coast for 2,000 stadia, and are called the islands of +Kalaiou+. The inhabitants of the adjacent coast are cruel and treacherous, and see imperfectly in the daytime.