PART I. 



A SKETCH OF THE PHYSICAL FEATUEES OF THE COAST 



OF 



SOUTH-EAST ARABIA 



AND OJ THE 



COUNTRY BETWEEN MAKALLAH AND THE HADEAMtJT. 



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

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

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

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

 the Eoyal Geographical Society on the llth May, 1839 \ The 

 second part of the memoir did not appear until 1845 '. It carriea 

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

 but more properly Cape Island. 



The Survey of this coast was completed by the Indian Navy 

 between 1844-46. 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. H. J. Carter, F.E.S., the Surgeon of the surveying ship, the 

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

 to complete the 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. XT. 1845, pp. 104^160 and map. 



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



* Journ. Bombay Branch Hoy. 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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