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barrel), dates (one bag), sugar and coffee (each 

 20 lbs.), salt, pepper, onions, and curry stuff, oil 

 and clarified butter, snuff and tobacco. Of 

 course soap and candles were not forgotten, and 

 we had a small but necessary supply of cords 

 for baggage — these, however, soon followed the 

 way of our knives. The several items form a 

 grand total of $480, equal to about £50 per 

 mensem. I must observe, however, that we travel- 

 led in humble guise, lured poor vessels, walked 

 the whole way, and otherwise practised a some- 

 what rigid economy. 



Ladha Damha, who had provided us with these 

 necessaries, also hired for the coasting cruise an 

 old Arab Beden, or ' Awaysiyeh' (foyst) called 

 the Riami. She was a fine specimen of her class ; 

 old and rotten, the boards and timbers of the deck 

 were breaking up ; the tanks were represented by 

 a few Girbahs, or empty skins ; the sails were in 

 rags ; the ropes and cables broke every half -hour, 

 and the awning leaked like a cheap waterproof, 

 despite bits of cotton rudely caulked in. Ants 

 effected lodgment in our instrument cases, cock- 

 roaches dropped upon us all day, and the rats made 

 marriage, as Said said, during the live-long night. 

 The crew was picked up out of the bazar : one 

 was a tailor, a second stuttered unintelligibly, a 



