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to Hoosafine the coast is low, well planted with date trees, and the
soundings regular to four and five fathoms, three quarters of a mile off
shore.
Hoosafine.
Hoosafine is a fort and rather large, village in lat. 24° 37' 45" N.,
long. 5G° 36' 50" E. It has a few small trading boats, and about two
hundred inhabitants. Supplies and water may be had here. The
anchorage is good in six fathoms, mud.
Nabbine.
One mile and a quarter to the southward is the fort and village of
Nabbine, containing about sixty inhabitants. The coast is safe to navi­
gate within a mile of the shore along to Hoomook, a village in lat. 24°
31' 15" N., long. 56° 41' 48" E.
Luar.
Luar is a large fort, with a town two miles inland, in lat. 24° 30' 53"
N., long. 56° 39' 48" E. It is a place of some importance, and the
nominal revenue of it, and the places attached to it, is about seven
thousand German crowns ; but it is a very small portion that goes to
the Imaum.
Maggaese.
Maggaese, a fort and town in lat. 24° 27' 40" N., long. 56° 46' E.,
has about six hundred inhabitants. It is, with some villages adjacent,
a mart and manufactory of the cotton canvas used bv the Arabs for sails
to their vessels. It has a great trade in this, and the canvas is con­
sidered better than that of Bahrein. About forty to sixty thousand
German crowns’ value of it is exported every year. The place yields
the Imaum a nominal revenue of two thousand German crowns. Cattle
and poultry are procurable here, also good water. From Hoomook to
this the soundings are regular to four and five fathoms, a little more
than half a mile off shore. The anchorage is in five fathoms, mud.
Between this place and Sohar are the villages of Farska and Ras Sallan,
each containing about sixty inhabitants, mostly fishermen and cultiva­
tors. The soundings along the coast are regular to Sohar, there being
twenty-five fathoms ten miles off shore, and four and five within a
mile of it.
Sohar.
Sohar is the principal town on this part of the coast, containing in
and around it about four thousand inhabitants. It is in lat. 24° 21' 40"
N., long. 56° 52' 3" E. It is a place of great trade with the inland
tribes. It has about forty large boats belonging to it, besides a great
number of coasting traders, and is so strong in its resources as frequent­
ly to be in open rebellion to the Imaum of Muskat. His revenues from