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BIBLIOG RA Puv.—Lieutenant Wellsted, Travels in See also:Arabia (Lond., 1838) ; " Narrative of a See also:Journey to the Ruins of Nakeb el Hajar " (Jour. R. Geog. See also:Soc. vii. 20); Carsten See also:Niebuhr. Travels through Arabia (transl. into See also:English by See also:Robert See also:Heron, 2 vols., Edin., 1792) ; See also:John See also:Lewis See also:Burckhardt, Travels in Arabia (2 vols., Lond., 1829); Notes on the See also:Bedouins and Wahabis, (2 vols., Lond., 1830; in See also:German, See also:Weimar, 1831); C. J. Cruttendtn, See also:Journal of an Excursion to See also:Sana'a, the See also:Capital of See also:Yemen (Bombay, 1838); A. See also:Sprenger, See also:Die alte Geog,aphie A rabiens als Grundlage der Entwickiungsgeschichte See also:des Semitismus (Berne, 1875) ; See also:Sir See also:Richard F. See also:Burton, See also:Personal Narrative of a See also:Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah (Lond., 1855) ; W. See also:Robertson See also:Smith, Kinship and See also:Marriage in See also:Early Arabia (See also:Cam-See also:bridge) ; E. See also:Reclus, See also:Les Arabes (See also:Brussels, 1898) ; See also:Lady See also:Anne See also:Blunt, A Pilgrimage to See also:Nejd (2 vols., Lond., 1881); C.

M. Doughty, Arabia Deserta (2 vols., 1888) ; Rev. S. M. Zwemer, Arabia: the See also:

Cradle of See also:Islam (1900); Albrecht Zehme, Arabien fend die Araber, seit hundert Jahren (1875). ARACAJ$, a See also:city and seaport of See also:Brazil, capital of the See also:state of See also:Sergipe, 170 M. N.N.E. of See also:Bahia, on the See also:river Cotinguiba, or Cotindiba, 6 m. from the See also:coast. The See also:municipality, of which it forms a See also:part, had a See also:population in 1890 of 16,336, about two-thirds of whom lived in the city itself. Aracaju is a badly built See also:town on the right See also:bank of the river at the See also:base of a See also:ridge of See also:low See also:sand-hills and has the usual features of an unprogressive provincial capital. See also:Good See also:limestone is quarried in its vicinity, and the See also:country tributary to this See also:port produces large quantities of See also:sugar. See also:Cotton is also grown, and the back country sends down hides and skins for shipment. The anchorage is good, but a dangerous See also:bar at the mouth of the river prevents the entrance of vessels See also:drawing more than 12 ft.

The port is visited, there-fore, only by the smaller steamers of the coastwise lines. The river is navigable as far as the town of Maroim, about to m. beyond Aracaju. The city was founded in 1855.

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