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CHAPTER XIII.

1 Arrival of Pilgrims — Number permitted to each Boat — Pro­
visions and Water—Mode of Navigating the Arabian Coast—
Begging Pilgrims—Landing at Jiddah—Burckhardt—Aggre­
gate number of Pilgrims — Sheep and Bullocks at Jiddah—
Birds — Fish—Articles of Commerce — Imports — Exports—
Corn Trade— Timber — Trading Vessels—Political Events—
Notes—Pilgrim Route.

It was computed that twenty thousand pil­
grims arrived this year, 1831, from the Egyp­
tian ports. Those coming from Abyssinia,
Nubia, and other parts of interior Africa, em­

bark mostly at Masawwah, Suwakin, and
Kosair, and those from Turkey and the Bar­

bary states at Suez. Constant employment
was thus afforded from January to July to
about seventy boats belonging to the latter
port, and fifty to Kosair.
The regulations which Mohammed ’All has
established at the different ports relative to
the embarkation, passage, and disembarka-