BABEL-MANDEL, the GATE OF MOURNING; a famous strait in the Indian ocean, between the coast of Arabia Felix in Asia, and that of Adel and Zeila in Africa, at the entrance into the Red-Sea. By some it is also called the Straits of Moka. It is narrow, and difficult to sail through, on account of the sand-banks.
At the mouth of the strait is a small island called also Babenhau-
Babel-Mandel, which is little else than a barren rock.
E. Long. 44. 30. N. Lat. 12. 40.