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X.] COAST OF ARABIA. 173

cloths made of sheep and goats' hair, and
covered with the same material, they had
neither furniture nor bedding, except the
clothes they wore; and their only utensils
were a few cooking-pots, a bowl for holding
milk, and some jars containing either butter
or g’hi. Unlike the generality of their coun­
trymen near the coast, they did not appear
jealous of their women, or solicitous to con­

ceal them from our view. We conversed
freely on these occasions, while their faces
were uncovered ; but, whenever we met them
abroad, the mouth and lower part of the face
were invisible.
About seven miles and a half to the south­
ward of ’Ainunah there is a low, sandy, and
somewhat bushy island, which has a few huts
on its northern end belonging to the Huteiini
tribe. The ship anchored off its southern
extremity, in a channel between it and the

main, the latter distant about half a mile.
The coast here forms a low table-land, in­

tersected by numerous valleys leading from
the interior towards the sea. At the period
of our visit the bottom and sides of these
valleys were covered with trees and long