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X CONTENTS.

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Revival of commerce .... 435
Analogy between the commerce of ancient and modern
India and Arabia .... 436
Trade and trading vessels—Arab compass 437
Anecdote—Fertile valleys 438
Obstacles to reaching Hydr&maut 439
Signification of the name—Extent 440
List of towns ..... 441
Population — Fertility — Grand Sheikh — Warlike cha­
racter of natives .... 442
Shaher—Fortifications—Prison—Mosques 443
Absence of coffee-houses 444
Tatooing—Feast of the u Aid’*—War dance 445
Female chastity — Smoking—Population—Family recol­
lections of the Arabs 446
Emigration—Sheikh Ali Ney—Lawsuit—Tardy operation
of British justice . 447
Government—Natural productions—Dragon’s blood tree 448
Climate of Arabia .... 452
Darfur—Morebat—Kissin—Socotra—King of Furt&k—
Anecdote ..... 453
Conclusion 456
APPENDIX.
Pilgrim route from Cairo to Mecca . 457
Botanical Notes 463
Bab el Mandub—Height and currents of Red Sea 465

LIST OF PLATES.

Vol. II.
Mount Sinai' . Frontispiece.
Map of Peninsula of Sinai' . Page 1
View of the Jebel Narkous 24
Map of the Red Sea 308
Sketch of the Island of Dhalac 328
Berenice, ihe view 334
Inscriptions, &c. 337
Inscriptions at Hasan Gor&b 424
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