or Hamesucken. Burglary, or nocturnal housebreaking, was, by the ancient English law, called *Hamesecken*, as it is in Scotland to this day.

HAM, a region of Central Asia, in Mongolia, situated in the heart of the great desert of Gobi, and on the great caravan route to China, to whose jurisdiction it is subject. The soil is barren, and it contains only one city and a few villages. It produces, however, melons of an exquisite flavour. The inhabitants are Mohammedans.