Selections from the travels and journals preserved in the Bombay secretariat . for my execution, when my guides and protectors came inhaste and quieted the Bedowins minds by means of the moral influence they had over the meantime I remained confined to my room with my feet in fetters. I was iuiprisonedfor 3 days, but provided with every necessary ; on the evening of the third day my protectorscame to me with the news, that they had pacified the Bedowins vuider the condition that I wasto return to Macalla, and that I should give up all my writings. At night I concealed asmany of my pape
Selections from the travels and journals preserved in the Bombay secretariat . for my execution, when my guides and protectors came inhaste and quieted the Bedowins minds by means of the moral influence they had over the meantime I remained confined to my room with my feet in fetters. I was iuiprisonedfor 3 days, but provided with every necessary ; on the evening of the third day my protectorscame to me with the news, that they had pacified the Bedowins vuider the condition that I wasto return to Macalla, and that I should give up all my writings. At night I concealed asmany of my papers as I could, and delivered only those which were written in pencil, withwhich they were contented. After my notes were given up, the Sultan wished to see myluggage, from which he selected for himself whatever pleased him. The next morning I setout on my return to Macalla, which town I reached on the 8th of September, after a journey of12 days, and thence took a boat for Aden. MEMOIR OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ARABIA FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE RED SEA TO MI8ENAT 1839. B 1485—53. MEMOIR OF THE SOUTH COAST OF ARABIA FROM THE ENTRANCE OF THE RED SEA TO MISENAT, IN 50° 43 25 E. BY CAPTAIN S. B. HAINES. INDIAN NAVY. Ras Bab-el-Mandeb, or the Cape of the Gate of Affliction, is a prominent cape whichforms the south-western extremity of Arabia, and the north-eastern shore of the entrance intothe Red Sea. When seen from the eastward the land assumes the shape of a wedge of gunnersquoin, and is visible from a vessels deck, on a clear day, at the distance of 35 miles. Its high-est peak, named Jebel Manhali, rises to 865 feet, whence it slopes to the southward, andterminates in a low point on the sea. Before proceeding with the narrative, I may be permitted to state that, in the followingpages, it is proposed to give a description of about 500 miles of the southern coast of Arabia—hitherto almost unknown—and such an account of its population, government, and commerce,as was obtained, duri
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