a city of Arabia, once the capital of Yemen; but its art having fallen into a state of decay, the principal city of the province is now Mocha. The old mosques and minarets still give to the place a magnificent appearance from a distance, and it is still distinguished by an academy, much resented by the youth of Yemen. But it is gradually falling into ruins, so that it has become an employment for the people to carry off the stones, which are sold to be elsewhere applied to the purposes of building. Zebid is 52 miles north of Mocha.

ZIBU, one of the Philippine Islands, situated about the 123rd and 124th degrees of east longitude. It is 108 miles in length by 24 in breadth. It is remarkable as the place where Magellan fell in a skirmish with the natives in 1521.