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entire peninsula forming tho north east promontory of Arabia exhibits, the squatting of this
isolated and miserable feoplc amid its columns of basalt and lava afford a picture well worthy
of attention. Professing Mabommedanisra of the Sunni lype thev know nothing whatever
of its doctrines or of 1 ooks, and indcod only exist in the most primitive manner. Yet th**y aro
proud enough to deny th*-ir daughters in marriage to any but their own tribe, though, as they
naively observed, they bad no objection t » accept thoso of other families if they fell in their
way. Their mo-ques, or places of worship, have more than ordinary caro bestowed on their
construction, and, stuccoed as they are, aro the most prominent features when approaching their
homesteads from the 6ea.