As Captain Haines and Mr. Carter did not confine their 

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

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

 subject of sufficient interest, in view of the zoological collections 

 made on Mr. Bent's Expeditioji 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 Bas el Had, and a sketch of "Wrede's^, 

 Hirsoh's ^, and Bent's ^ impressions of the Hadramut itself. 



Bound the headland of Jebel Sharashan, on which Aden is 

 situated, lies the great bay of Grhubbet Se'ilan, 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 sambuh, 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 Adolph, Baron Wrede,'' Journ. Eoy. 

 Geogr. Soo. xiv. 1844, pp. 107-112 ; ' Eeiee in Hadhramaut,' edited by H. F. 

 Ton Maltzan, 1870. 



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



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



* Proo. Eoy. Geogr. Soo. xv. 1871, pp. 319-328; Trans. Bombay Geogr. 

 Soo. xix. 1874, pp. 166-186. Accompanying this summary of the Narrative 

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

 graphical features, geology, and hydrology of the triangle between Ain JowAri, 

 Habban, and Haur4. 



' This is probably a misprint for 40 yards. 



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

 Maloolmson, in his account of Aden (Journ. Eoy. As. Soo. viii. 1846, 

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

 from Aden. When at Suakin I was told that a small hyaena frequented the 

 plain near that town. It proved to be not a bysena, but Proteles cristatus, 

 Is GeofFr. Is it possible that the small hyasna of the Aden ravines is the same 

 animal ? 



