The name of +Omana+ has been corrupted in the MSS. of Ptolemy into Nommana, Nombana, +Kommana+, Kombana, but Marcian has preserved the correct spelling. From Omana as from Apologos great quantities of pearl of an inferior sort were exported to Arabia and Barugaza. No part however of the produce of India is mentioned as among its exports, although it was the centre of commerce between that country and Arabia. 37. After leaving the district of +Omana+ the country of the +Parsidai+ succeeds, which belongs to another government, and the bay which bears the name of +Terabdoi+, from the midst of which a cape projects. Here also is a river large enough to permit the entrance of ships, with a small mart at its mouth called +Oraia+. Behind it in the interior, at the distance of a seven days’ journey from the coast, is the city where the king resides, called Rhambakia. This district, in addition to corn, produces wine, rice, and dates, though in the tract near the sea, only the fragrant gum called bdellium. (37) The district which succeeds Omana belongs to the +Parsidai+, a tribe in Gedrosia next neighbours to the +Arbitae+ on the East. They are mentioned by Ptolemy (VI. xx., p. 439) and by Arrian (_Indika_ xxvi.) who calls them +Pasirees+, and notes that they had a small town called +Pasira+, distant about 60 stadia from the sea, and a harbour with good anchorage called +Bagisara+. The Promontory of the _Periplûs_ is also noted and described as projecting far into the sea, and being high and precipitous. It is the Cape now called +Arabah+ or +Urmarah+. The Bay into which it projects is called +Terabdôn+, a name which is found only in our author. Vincent erroneously identifies this with the +Paragôn+ of Ptolemy. It is no doubt the Bay which extends from Cape Guadel to Cape Monze. The river which enters this Bay, at the mouth of which stood the small mart called +Oraia+, was probably that which is now called the Akbor. The royal city which lay inland from the sea a seven days’ journey was perhaps, as Mannert has conjectured, +Rambakia+, mentioned by Arrian (_Anab._ vi. 21) as the capital of the +Oreitai+ or +Horitai+. 38. After this region, where the coast is already deeply indented by gulfs caused by the land advancing with a vast curve from the east, succeeds the seaboard of Skythia, a region which extends to northward. It is very low and flat, and contains the mouths of the +Sinthos+ (Indus), the largest of all the rivers which fall into the Erythræan Sea, and which, indeed, pours into it such a vast body of water that while you are yet far off from the land at its mouth you find the sea turned of a white colour by its waters.