430 Mr. R. M‘Andrew on Testaceous Mollusca 
We sailed from Suez on the 10th of February, our little 
squadron consisting of three boats, of which the largest (twelve 
tons burthen) carried our luggage and stores, the second (five 
tons) was the worker, and a small boat was only used for em- 
barking and disembarking ourselves and effects. The crew, six 
in number, was composed of four Maltese, a Neapolitan, and an 
Arab, a native of Tur, who acted as pilot; and I have great 
pleasure in stating that I found them all uniformly obliging 
and desirous of assisting in my pursuits. The Arab turned 
out to be a first-rate diver, and, not having the fear of sharks 
before his eyes, thought nothing of going down like a frog to 
the depth of four or five fathoms, to bring up any portable 
object that had attracted our notice at the bottom. 
We worked slowly down the Gulf, keeping to the Arabian 
side, as the natives there were more to be trusted than the 
Arabs of the opposite coast, changing our station about every 
two days, till in about three weeks we reached Tur, which 
may be called the seaport of the convent of Mount Sinai. 
Thence we crossed over to the Point of Zeite and the deso- 
late islands situated towards the western side of the Straits 
of Jubal, so named from one of them. 
After working for a week among these islands, where the 
fecundity of the sea is as wonderful as the sterility of the 
adjacent land, we bore away for Ras Mahommed, the extreme 
point of the peninsula of Mount Sinai, dividing the Gulf 
of Suez on the one side from that of Akaba on the other. 
Here terminated our researches with the dredge, as, in conse- 
quence of our having got on more slowly than we anticipated, 
some of our stores were becoming exhausted, and our water 
putrid—a slight drawback to what had been truly a pleasure- 
excursion. The climate was all that we could desire. 
_ We encamped four days at Ras Mahommed before embark- 
ing on our return, which we then did in earnest, and, as the 
prevailing winds are from the north-west, thought ourselves 
fortunate to reach Tur in a week, without stopping to dredge 
by the way, though we, of course, encamped on shore every 
night. Sending the collections and spare luggage on by the 
boats, we proceeded by land, having engaged a sheik from the 
neighbourhood of Mount Sinai, with twelve camels and as 
many Arabs, to convey us to Suez, which we reached in seven 
days, just fifty days after our departure from it. 
ow as regards results. 
The total number of species of Mollusca I obtained in the 
Gulf of Suez (not including the Nudibranchiates, of which I 
pee a few in spirits) amounts to some 818, of which 619 
ave been n: or described, the remaining 199 being 
