Desert and water gardens of the Red Sea

by Cyril Crossland

• 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.

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Plate II

[(Large-size)]

Fig. 2. Map of Red Sea

FOOTNOTES:

[1]For the story of Shêkh Barûd’s death see [p. 37.]

[2]Acacia tortilis.