INDEX
- Acacia bushes, beauty of [3]
- use [50]
- Administration by native Shêkhs [27]
- Akaba [122]
- Alexandria [111]
- Amulets [42]
- Animals resembling seaweed [8]
- Arabs [15]
- Archean rocks [127]
- Arms [23], [27]
- use of [28]
- Arûs harbour [148]
- Association of corals and higher animals [94]
- with microscopic plants [95]
- Atbara route to Nile [ix]
- district [19]
- Axum, mediaeval trade route of [39]
- Baraka flood and delta [151]
- Benas, Ras [141]
- Biologist’s justification [viii], [x]
- Bisharia, tribe [15]
- Block mountains [125]
- Boring animals [101]
- Boundaries of Anglo-Egyptian coast [vii]
- Brothers Islets [123]
- Cape Verde Islands [110]
- Cats [45]
- Challenger Society [x]
- Clams (Tridacna) [69], [100]
- as food [59]
- pearls from [69]
- Climate, Red Sea coast [118]
- Clione, boring sponge [101]
- Corals, animal nature of [85]
- cups and polyps [85]
- colours [93]
- formation of colonies [89]
- genera Caryophyllia (British coral) [87], [91]
- Dendrophyllia [89]
- Fungia [92]
- Galaxea [94]
- Madrepora [91]
- Porites [89], [100]
- (see also plates [26] and [28] and explanation p. [88])
- life-history [98]
- physiology [86], [95]
- place in evolution [96]
- plant-like nutrition [95]
- sizes of colonies [89], [91]
- variety of forms [90]
- Coral Reefs—see Reefs
- “Coralline” seaweed [100]
- Crystallisation of coral limestone [111]
- Cymodocea, a marine plant [108]
- Daedalus shoal [124]
- Dance, religious [41]
- Darwin’s theory of atoll formation [114], [136]
- Delta of the Baraka [151]
- Depth of Red Sea [121]
- Destruction of corals [100]
- Devil fish or sting rays [70]
- Dhow, or sambûk sailing vessels [59]
- Diving, as seamanship [63]
- for pearl oysters [66]
- Divorce [75]
- Dongonab Bay [104], [138], [141]
- reefs in [153]
- Dongonab plain [155]
- Dulawa harbour [147]
- Dunn, Sudan Government Geologist [vii]
- Eclipse of the moon [47]
- Elevation of reefs above sea [131], [133]
- in Pemba and Zanzibar [109], [110]
- Eunice, marine worm [101]
- Evil eye [44]
- Evolution [96]
- Faulting, geologic term [122]
- Fijab harbour [148]
- Fishing [68]
- Fish spearing [70], [71]
- Funafuti atoll reef [114]
- Gardiner, Prof. J. Stanley [ix]
- Geologic time [97], [132]
- Geological history of Red Sea, summary [154]
- Gordon [14]
- Gregory, Professor [122], [125]
- Hamitic natives [16]
- personality of [22]
- Harbours, natural [146]
- Hardihood of natives [30], [54], [78]
- Honesty [49]
- Ibrahim’s wife [76]
- Jebel Abu Shagara and J. Têtâwib [138], [143]
- Jedda [12], [21]
- Linnean Society [x]
- Lithodomus, boring mollusc [101]
- Lithothamnia, stony seaweeds [110]
- Luxuries, native [55]
- Mabrûk, Swahili slave [20]
- Makawar Island [134], [135], [138]
- Manufactures [80]
- Maritime plain [3], [10], [127]
- Marital relations [32], [73]
- Medical ideas [47], [78]
- Medicine, ink as [43]
- Milking [44]
- Mohammedanism [33]
- Mûled dance and service [40]
- Murray, Messrs [x]
- Nationalities on coast [15]
- Negroes [17]
- Newness (geologically) of Red Sea coast [132]
- Ornaments [24], [25]
- Osman Digna [20], [27]
- Pearling [65]
- Pearls, from Tridacna clams [69]
- theory of origin of true pearls [44]
- Pholas, coral borer [103]
- Plant and animal interchange of oxygen [94]
- Porites—see Corals
- Porpoise [45]
- Port Sudan [1], [9], [133], [146]
- approach by sea [1], [136]
- reefs at [83], [100], [103]
- Port Sudan-Atbara route to Khartum [ix]
- Prayer [39]
- Pseudoscarus [101]
- Rainfall [120]
- Rain squall [7]
- Raised shore-lines [134]
- Rawaya peninsula [127], [131], [138], [145]
- Reefs, coral Australian Barrier [117]
- classification of [113]
- constituents [99], [131]
- elevated above sea [83], [131]
- form of surface [104]
- fringing and barrier [1], [113], map [137]
- growth of [100], [105]
- living of Red Sea [152]
- origin by abrasion [106], [140]
- origin of atolls [114]
- pictorial [5], [8], [92]
- sandstone, Alexandria [111]
- sandstone, Cape Verde Islands [110]
- Zanzibar [89], [109]
- Religion [33], [35]
- Rift Valley, the Great [122]
- step formation of sides [122], [143]
- Rising and sinking lands [133]
- Sailors, Arabian [59]
- Hamitic [65]
- Salak [127], [141], [149]
- Sambûk (or dhow) sailing vessel [59]
- Sand-eating animals [103]
- Sandstone hills [129]
- Sanganeb lighthouse [10]
- atoll reef [124]
- Sea gardens [8], [92]
- Seaweed, stony [100]
- Sexual morality [26], [32]
- Shêkh Barûd (Port Sudan), stories of [37]
- Shêkhs, living [27]
- as dead saints [36], [38]
- Shinab Harbour [147]
- Shubuk reefs [150]
- Slaves’ stories [19]
- Social relations [32]
- Songs of labour [31]
- Sting rays or devil fish [70]
- Suakin [10], [13], [146]
- archipelago [9], [150]
- Subsistence of natives [50]
- Sunset land [8]
- Superstitions, native [42]
- British [49]
- Tella Tella Island [154]
- Tents of nomads [53]
- Têtâwib hill [143]
- Tides of Red Sea [121]
- Tokar, dervish stronghold [20]
- oasis, delta of Baraka floods [151]
- Travel by sea [150]
- Trinkitat [150]
- Tubipora [110]
- Uganda railway, crossing Rift Valley [124]
- Utensils [55]
- Vegetation [3], [52]
- Vermetus [110]
- Volcanoes [123]
- Warning coloration of sting rays [71]
- Wedding and Arabian sword dances [57]
- Wiai harbour [148]
- Women, personality and influence [24], [73], [81]
- Xenia [151]
- Yemêna ravine and oasis [130]
- Zanzibar reefs [89], [109], [117]
CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
Plate II
Fig. 2. Map of Red Sea