ABSTRACT

TH E CHAPTER CONCERNING TAESA AND Z IB IT AND DAM AR, V E R Y LARGE CITIES OF A R A B IA FELIX.

After seeing Sana I resumed my journey and went to another city called Taesa,3 which is distant three days’ jour-

> Niebuhr says that the walls are o f earth, faced with unbumt brick and surmounted by a great many small turrets. According to the nar­ rative o f the French travellers who visited Sanaa in 1712, as given by De la Roque in his Voyage de VArabie Heureuse, the breadth o f the walls is sufficient to admit o f driving eight horses abreast.