Sokotra

Sokotra itself is situated about 240 miles from Cape Guardafui, and is about 500 miles from Aden.

They send sharks' fins to China from here, as well as from Sokotra and the Somali coast.

The chief continental islands are Madagascar, Sokotra and Ceylon.

We assured them that we had landed in Sokotra (which they pronounce Sakoutra) to see the island, and not to circumnavigate it.

They had heard how a Sokotran man had turned a woman of Maskat into a seal and forced her to swim over to Sokotra in that shape.