Crossword-Solution: SOKOTRA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The classic example of this serial grouping is found in the line of islands, physical or political, which trace England's artery of communication with India--Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Perim, Aden, Sokotra, and Ceylon, besides her dominant position at Suez.

The settlement of Aden, with its dependencies of Perim and Sokotra Island, forms part of the government of Bombay.

The shrub itself is a picturesque one, with a leaf not unlike an ash, only stiffer; it has a tiny green flower, not red like the Sokotra flowers, and a scaly bark.

The old Sultan Salem is father to the sultan of Sokotra, which belongs to the Mahri tribe, and brother to the sultan of Saihut, another robber chief, who is equally averse to admitting Europeans to his dominions.

Cast away in the Indian Ocean, like a fragment rejected in the construction of Africa, very mountainous and fertile, yet practically harbourless, the island of Sokotra is, perhaps, as little known as any inhabited island on the globe.