As Captain Haines and Mr. Carter did not confine their 

 researches merely to tlie coast, but gave an insight into the 

 character of the country lying beyond it, I have thought the 

 subject of sufficient interest, in view o£ the zoological collections 

 made on Mr. Bent's Expedition to the Hadramut being the first 

 that have been obtained from South-Eastern Arabia, to justify 

 my giving a brief summary of the leading features of the country 

 between Aden and Eas el Had, and a sketch of AYrede's ^ 

 Hirsch's ^ and Bent's ' impressions of the Hadramut itself. 



Bound the headland of Jebel Shamshan, on which Aden is 

 situated, lies the great bay of Ghubbet Sei'lan, from which a plain 

 extends into the interior. This plain was traversed by Captain 

 S. B. Miles and M. Munzinger in 1870 \ They went to Bir Ali, 

 220 miles to the east of Aden, in a small samluJc, and thence 

 penetrated into the interior as far as Habban and across the 

 plain to Aden, through the country occupied by the Eudhli 

 tribe. The plain is about 200 square miles in extent, and is 

 watered by two rivers, the Hassan and Banna ; and when 

 Captain Miles crossed the latter in the end of July, he says it 

 was 400 ® yards broad, and running over knee-deep. Along the 

 shore the plain was bordered by a thick forest of acacia, and 

 towards the hills broad fields of grass and corn stretched away 

 to the Taffai valley ^ The uncultivated parts were either sandy 

 patches, or were covered with brushwood and thick jungle. 

 The jowari grew to a great height, considerably overtopping the 



' "An Excursion in Hadramaut by Adolpb, Baron Wrede," Journ. Roy. 

 Geogr. Soc. xiv. 184-1, pp. 107-112 ; ' Eeise in Hadhraniaut,' edited bj H. F. 

 Ton Maltzan, 1870. 



2 Verb. Ges. fiir Erdk. Berlin, xxi. 1894, pp. 126-136 and map. 



^ Geogr. Journ. iv. 1894, p. 315 and map. 



* Proc. Eoj. Geogr. Soc. xv. 1871, pp. 319-328; Trans. Bombay Geogr. 

 Soc. xi.x. 1874, pp. 166-186. Accompanjing tbis summary of tbe Narrative 

 issued by tbe Government of Bombay is a paper by M. Munzinger on the geo- 

 graphical features, geology, and liydrology of the triangle between Ain Jowdri, 

 Ilabban, and IlaurA. 



" This is probably a misprint for 40 yards. 



" I cannot refrain from calling attention here to a statement by J. P. 

 Malcolmson, in his account of Aden (Journ. Roy. As. Soc. viii. 1846, 

 pp. 279-292), that a few hyaenas of small size occur in the deep ravines inland 

 from Aden, ^^'hen at Suakin I was told that a small hyaena frequented the 

 plain near that town. It proved to be not a byrena, but Proteles crintatus, 

 Is Geoffr. Is it possible that the small hjaua of the Aden ravines is the same 

 animal ? 



