'Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, including a journey from Bagdad by Mount Zagros, to Hamadan, the ancient Ecbatana, researches in Ispahan and the ruins of Persepolis, and journey from thence by Shiraz and Shapoor to the sea-shore. Description of Bussorah, Bushire, Bahrein, Ormuz, and Muscat, narrative of an expedition against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, with illustrations of the voyage of Nearchus, and passage by the Arabian Sea to Bombay.' [‎444] (475/582)

^44. cape 0f hhasseeni.
of arrival at either extreme of the other, so as to include its length
too, if necessary ; more particularly as Ila, the harbour mentioned,
is only said to be sheltered by an island in the offing, called Kaika,
without saying from what winds, or in what direction ; so that if
the distance were the only point to be adjusted, twenty out of the
twenty-five miles might be unobjectionably made out, even at
present.
The island of Hinderabia resembles that of Kaika in its general
character, being low, level, and sandy at the base; but not so well
wooded, although it has some single trees and shrubs, and, it is
said, good water.
As the day advanced, the wind drew more easterly; and at
noon, being in latitude 25° 49' north, and longitude 53° 58'. east,
Charrack Hill bearing north half-east, distant at least sixty miles,
we saw the Arabian shore, bearing south-south-east, rather low,
and distant about twenty miles from us, our soundings Measurements of the depth of a body of water. being then
in forty fathoms.
Neither the names of Cape Bestion, nor Certes, under any of
their variations of sound, are at all known to the natives of this
coast. The eastern cape they call Ras-el-Shenaz, and the western
cape, Ras-el-Hhasseeni, both from towns of that name near their
respective extremes. In the bay between them are the towns
of Boostana and Mogho ; the first nearest to Ras-el-Shenaz, and
the second nearest to Ras-el-Hhasseeni, and about equidistant
from these capes, and from each other. To the eastward of Ras-
el-Hhasseeni, are the towns of Charrack and Tawoone, which are
described as similar to Shenaz, Linga, and Cheroo.
This cape of Hhasseeni corresponds very accurately in point
of distance from Shenaz, to the Cape Tarsia of Arrian, at which
Nearchus anchored, after a run of three hundred stadia, or about
nineteen miles from Sididone, and before another run of the same
distance to Kataia, or Kaeese. Dr. Vincent thought he could per
ceive this Tarsia of the Greeks in Niebuhr's modern name of
Dsjerd, and refers the classical reader to the fluctuations in the