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sheep and goats. The method is very simple;
the milk being placed in goat-skins, it is
shaken until the butter becomes separated.
Bullocks are numerous at Jiddah and to
the southward ; some are occasionally met
with at Rabegh, and even at Yembo’, but to
the northward we saw none. They are em­
ployed in the date-groves for agricultural
labour, but I do not think either Bedowins or

the town Arabs partake of their flesh, which
they consider heating and injurious to health.
The eagle and grey vulture, several varieties
of the pigeon, swallow, quail, and red patridge,
are seen in this part of the Arabian coast;
wild ducks were shot at ’Arnunah, and flocks
of flamingos sometimes cross the northern
part of the sea.
We found an extraordinary variety of fish
amidst the reefs, and in every part of the
coast. In many of the sherms they were par­

ticularly abundant. When we could not haul
the seine, a boat despatched under sail, with a
line astern, seldom returned without a plenti­
ful supply. It is unnecessary to mention more
than that, in common with a certain species
of fish usually found in the vicinity of coral