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202 COAST OF ARABIA. [_CH.

CHAPTER XI.

Arab Sea-marks—Sherm Mahdr—Cure for Rheumatism—Sin­
gular Preventative against Cold—Ras-el-ahik—Anchorages
—Sherm Yembo’—Yembo'—The Town and its Inhabitants—
Tatooing—Country Seats—Neckeel—Cemeteries—Fresh Wa­
ter along the Shores of the Red Sea—Locusts as Food—Tomb
— Yembo' Hills — Fire-ivood — Bedowin Honesty — Floating
Sands—Sherm Bareika—Ruins—Antiquities—Attempted Ex­
tortion—An Attack—Consequences of shedding Blood—Mirza
Sabeer—Beni Soobhr—Defeat of Toussain Pacha—Sultan Ben
Hasan — Mohammed 'All — Harb Tribe—Sherm Rabegh—
Dates.
In our progress from Hasani to some shoals
to the southward, I observed that the Arab
mariners have a practice of turning up large
portions of the reefs, which, becoming in the

course of time blackened by exposure to the
atmosphere, serve to point out the different
anchorages. From that part of the coast op­
posite to Hasani to the southward, as far as
Ras Mahar, the land fronting the sea is low
and sandy in some places, and more elevated
and rocky in others; from thence it gradually