ABSTRACT
WITH the exception of Colonel Bos"cawen, who has left no record of his travels, the Sei'ar country had not hitherto been visited by a European, and never by a Government representative. Enquiries as to possible routes from Inembers of the Sei'ar tribe in Mukalla seemed to point to the feasibility of the programnle which I had framed tentatively in Aden, but the more enquiries I made in Shibam and Tariln the longer the journey seemed to become. All together seven different proposals were made by Sei'ars and others to take us to their country and all of them described routes varying either cOlnpletely or in part.
