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ness of their Senses Sagacity in tracing Footsteps Their Arms 

 Food and Cookery Manner of Eating Diseases Wealth and 

 Industry Marriage Divorce Education of their Children 

 Funerals Modes of Salutation Hospitality Warfare Rob- 

 bery and Theft The Blood-revenge Amusements Poetry and 

 Music Learning Medicine Superstitions Language Arts 

 Commerce Proposed Steam Routes by the Euphrates and the 

 Red Sea Population Concluding Reflections, Page 346 



CHAPTER IX. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF ARABIA. 



Want of Information on the Natural History of Arabia Scientific 

 Discoveries of the Danish Travellers GEOLOGY Mount Sinai 

 Hills of Hejaz and Yemen Volcanic Rocks Hot Springs 

 SOIL Agriculture Crops Harvest Comparative Fertility of 

 different Districts MINERALOGY No Gold or Silver Mines 

 in Arabia Precious Stones BOTANY Vegetables Plants 

 Coloquintida Tobacco Hemp TREES AND SHRUBS Fruit- 

 trees The Palm Date-groves Manna Gum-Arabic Honey 

 SHRUBS The Nebek Tamarisk Balsam of Mecca The 

 Gharkad Henna Acacia Incense-tree Coffee ZOOLOGY 

 Wild Animals Hyenas Monkeys Rock-goats Hares Jer- 

 boas Domestic Animals Cows Buffaloes Asses Horses 

 Camels Dromedaries Sheep Goats Dogs Mice Birds 

 Poultry Birds of Game Birds of Prey The Ostrich The 

 Lapwing The Samarman Field-sports of the Arabs Reptiles 

 Tortoises Scorpions Serpents Fishes Insects The Lo- 

 cust Ants Tenebriones Shells Coral Banks, 39 1 



