SOUTHERN ARABIA—COON 387 
This escarpment has been almost completely terraced by man. On it 
erow crops of luscious fruits, various hard grains, and the entire supply 
of the world’s finest grade of coffee. Beyond the escarpment stretches 
a vast upland plateau, sloping gently eastward and drained into the 
Wady Hadhramaut and the Indian Ocean. From the edge of the 
Miles 
— Marib 
MODERN PLACE NAMES — Sanaa 
0 50 100 150 200 
SCALE eo=——————— ees ——— 
SOUTHERN ARABIA 
ANCIENT PLACE NAMES 
Ae any 
3 anti? 
—_ gens 
soe ) 4 
Satod we SF 
pee Teri Sho Hudl’s Tom 
{Adi ffauteo*Saiwun 2 
Figure 1.—Southern Arabia 
g 
escarpment to the ill-defined border of the gradually encroaching 
Empty Quarter stretches a wide belt of terraced land on which great 
crops of grain are grown by the Imam’s subjects. The desert border- 
land, itself once the seat of garden states watered by means of huge 
dams, is now occupied by a few scattered tribes of Bedawin, who make 
