Note 097
The city of Negra, or Nag'ran, in Yemen, is
surrounded with palm-trees, and stands in the high road
between Saana, the capital, and Mecca; from the former ten,
from the latter twenty days' journey of a caravan of camels,
(Abulfeda, Descript. Arabiae, p. 52.)]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 42