text: "] At the time of its evacuation by the Turks Aden is said notwithstanding the decay of its Indian trade to have contained from 20 000 to 30 000 inhabitants; and the lofty minarets which a few years since still towered above the ruins of the mosques to which they had formerly been attached as well as the extensive burying-grounds in which the turbaned headstones peculiar to the Turks are even yet conspicuous bear testimony not less than the extent and magnitude of the ruinous fortifications to the population and splendour of the town under the Ottomans