The size of the towns might be small--the faith of the writer might be large.] [Footnote 15: It is compared by Abulfeda (in Hudson, tom.ii.p.

54) to Damascus, and is still the residence of the Iman of Yemen, (Voyages de Niebuhr, tom.i.p.

331-342.) Saana is twenty-four parasangs from Dafar, (Abulfeda, p.

51,) and sixty-eight from Aden, (p.

53.)] [Footnote 16: Pocock, Specimen, p.57.Geograph.Nubiensis, p.