RAS. ARAB. A cape, a headland ; hence— Ras-Arah, the S. cape of Arabia, low, sandy, rounded, and dangerous ; several vessels have been wrecked on its.banka, which extend as far as Khor Araran.
Ras Asir or Assair, or Cape Guardafui of the old charts, the N.E. point of Africa, is a precipit ous rocky cape 900 feet in height.
Ras 13ab-ul-Mandab, the northern headland on the Arabian shore of the straits of that name.
Ras Jaslik, in lat. 25° .50' N., long. 57° 43' 3' E., is a low projecting cape, sandy, on the N. coast of the Persian Gulf.
Ras Mahomed, the extreme point of the penin sula of Mount Sinai in lat. 27° 43' N., long. 34° 15' 30" E. It is 50 fleet high.
Ras Muari or Cape Alonzo is called Ras Jil by the BaInch. It is the frontier promontory bet ween Sind and Baluchistan, at the S.E. extremity of the estuary of the Hab river, lat. 24* 50' N., long. 66° 43' E. This headland is well known to mariners, and forms the extreme southern offshoot of the hills which, under the name of Bralmik, ete., separate Sind from Baluchistan. The Hab river washes its ea.stern base, and on the Baluchi or western side of the Ittib estuary rise the Jabal Pabb mountains, with peaks ILS high AS 2500 feet. Cape Monze, with the Jabal Pabb on the Baluchi or western side of the river, form well-known landmarks for makiug Kurachee during the south-west monsoon.
Itas-Italunat, called by British navigators Cape of the Wind's Death, is the western !Acadian(' of that extensive bight on the Arabian coast whose eastern boundary is ncar the town of Goeierh.
iu lat. 25° 48' N., long,. 56'4' E., a narrow sandy spit, known to historians as the scene of an expedition of the British Govern ment of India against the Wahabee rect. It ia an Arabic mune, signifying the cape or head of the tent,' situate on the Arabian coast of the Persian Gulf. The Juitsmi, a 1Valiabee tribe, having cap tured some of the East India Company's ships, and murdered the greater number of their mutt, in 1820 an e_xpedition was sent against them, which completely effected the object of the expedition, by destroying Ras-ul-Khyma, the Juasmi capital, and above fifty large dows.
Ras Zeiti, Zeitiyah, on the Egyptian side of the Gulf of Suez, 16 miles S.W. by S. of Tur. The Carnatic, P. and O. steamship, was last on a reef near Ras Zeiti.—Imp. Gaz. viii.; Ouseley's Tr. i. p. 3 ; Findlay.
RAS, a musical term. Rasdhari, a musician, applied to Hindu dancers, etc.