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islands of the Fish-eaters, the uninhabited Odanda, 

 Basa, a number of islands beloiiging to the Sabaei. 

 The rivers Thanar and Aninuni, the Doric Islands, 

 the Daulotos and Dora springs, the islands of Pteros, 

 Labatanis, Coboris and Sambrachate ^vith the town 

 of the sanie name on the mainland. Many islands 

 to the southward, the largest of which is Camari, 

 the river Musecros, Port Laupas ; the Sabaei, a 

 tribe of Scenitae," owning many islands and a 

 trading-station at Kalhat which is a port of embarka- 

 tion for India ; the district of Amithoscatta, Damnia, 

 the Greater and Lesser Mizi, Drymatina, the Macae; 

 a cape* in their territory points towards Carmania, 

 50 miles away. A remarkable event is said to have 

 occurred there : the governor of Mesene appointed 

 by King Antiochus, Numenius, here won a battle 

 against the Persians with his fleet and after the tide 

 had gone out a second battle with his cavalry, and 

 set up a couple of trophies, to Jupiter and to Neptune, 

 on the same spot. 



Out at sea off this coast lies the island of Ogyris, 

 famous as the burial-place of King Er}i-hras ; its 

 distance frcrm the mainland is 125 milcs and it 

 measures 11 2^^ miles round. Equally famous is a 

 second island in tlie Azanian Sea, the island of 

 Socotra, lying 280 miles away from the extreme 

 point of Cape Syagrus.<= 



The remaining tribes on the mainland situated Theresto/ 

 further south are the Autaridae, seven days' journey '^ *"' 

 into the mountains, the Larendani and Catapani 

 tribe, the Gebbanitae with several toAvns, of which 

 the largest are Nagia and Thomna, the latter with 

 sixty-five temples, a fact that indicates its size. 

 Then a cape the distance between which and the 



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