[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.)]