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SOUTHERN ARABIA. [CH.

The Futhalis arc said to be quarrelsome
and vindictive. I have very often heard it
mentioned here and in other parts, that there
is a small tribe in the vicinity of Shugra, the
number of which is never known to exceed

forty men; but whether they have recourse
to infanticide, or how otherwise they dispose
of their supernumerary offspring, I could not
learn.
The principal places in the vicinity of
Shugra, on the road to Jaffa, are Reimus,
one day’s journey; a town containing about
four hundred houses, and surrounded by nu­
merous date plantations. El Imshop, two
days, a large town; and Jaffa, from whence
large quantities of coffee are brought. This
appears the eastern limit of the coffee
plantations. Jaffa is described to me as a

hilly and elevated district, resembling Hy-
dram&ut in extent, and in the number and

distribution of the hamlets with which it is
studded. Although the people appear for
some time to have lost possession of the
coast, yet the reigning families at Shaher
and Makullah are of this stock, as are all
the aristocracy or respectable families of the