PART I. 



A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL FEATURES OF THE COAST 



OF 



SOUTH-EAST ARABIA 



AKD OF THE 



COUNTRY BETWEEN MAKALLAH AND THE HADRAMUT. 



The first part of a valuable memoir on the South-East Coast of 

 Arabia, from the entrance to the Eed Sea eastwards to Misenafc 

 in 50° 43' 25" E. longitude and 15° 3' N. latitude, by Captain 

 Stafford Bettesworth Haines, of the Indian Navy, was read before 

 the Eoyal Geographical Society on the 11th May, 18391. The 

 second part of the memoir did not appear until 18-45 *. It carries 

 the Survey as far east as Eas Jezirah, known as Cape Isolette, 

 but more properly Cape Island. 



The Survey of this coast was completed by the Indian Navy 

 between 1811-46. It was under the direction of Captain 

 Saunders and Lieutenant Grieve, and was conducted from east 

 to west, beginning at Maskat. Only a short memoir of this 

 Survey was published by Commander Saunders^; but the late 

 Mr. n. J. Carter, F.E.S., the Surgeon of the surveying ship, the 

 ' Palinurus,' gave an account* of Ids own observations, in order 

 to complete tlie geographical description of the coast. Separate 

 contributions to our knowledge of some parts of the coast-line 

 were made by other officers of both surveys. 



' Journ. Eoy. Geogr. Soc. vol. ix. 1839, pp. 125-156 and map. 



2 Ibid. vol. XV. 1845, pp. KH-IGO and map. 



3 Ibid. vol. xvi. 1846, pp. 169-186. 



* Jouru. Bombay Branch Eoy. As. Soc. iii. Part ii. 1851, pp. 224-317. 

 I am indebted to Mrs. Carter for the use of a reprint of this paper, illustrated 

 by Mr. Carter's sketches of the country and its people. 



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