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woe begone pieces or fillets of salt mackerel, which by the [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] wavy stripes looked most like [[underlined]] Euthynnus alleteratus [[/underlined]] the stuff was called "malhay." Also a weird looking dried porgy was called "burtam." It was stout with big scales and prominent teeth, a black grouper was also called burtam, I guess they just don't tell the dried fish apart. The time was about 10:30 A.M. We got ready to go about 1:30 P.M.; Chubb arrived at 12:30, and took a little more lunch with me. We left at 2:30 p.m. the gulz we left behind because it sank and had no oars. There was a moderate shamal with white caps, and we headed about MNW till 3:55 P.M. we passed abean [[image: rocky island with three bird-like figures standing atop it]] "Benega Jedūn" a small rocky islet may be 20 feet high and 120 ft. long with cormorants on top then we changed to due north till 4:30 P.M. then N.E. by E shoal areas with sea weed bottom. At 5:45 we arrived at Fasht al Jarim which is no island but a large shallow area with sand bottom and patches of small mostly dead coral. About 4-6 feet of water at low tide. Henry S. Chubb and I went over board to look around with glass masks. Henry saw a small hagaseh under a coral head which looked like an eel. Abdullah dove down and caught it by hand, U-48-97. We also saw [[underlined]] Pomacentrus [[/underlined]] (black), [[underlined]] Plesiops nigricans [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Scolopsis personatus [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Scolopsis [[/underlined]] with the [[insertion above]] [[underlined]] ghanam [[/underlined]] [[/insertion]] stripes, [[underlined]] Lutjanus [[/underlined]] with the spot, [[underlined]] Periophthalmus [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Sargus noct [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Sparus bifasciatus [[/underlined]], green wrasse, and [[underlined]] Pomacanthus [[insertion]] maculosus [[/insertion]] [[/underlined]]. The species were few and the fish small and not too plentiful. There were two other fishing boats there, but they had no fish. In spite of a continuous moderate shamal all night we were in fairly calm water because the Fasht to windward of us was shallow, and probably broke the sea. In the evening, I caught some larval fish, most of the bait was herring. I saw 2 snakes, and one shark sucker, and a bill fish. There were also a couple of snake armed [[image: starfish]] smooth starfish which were tan colored.
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June 14 - Clear at dawn with increasing strong shamal winds. We got under way at 6 A.M. and reached Manama about 8:30 A.M. A couple of porpoises followed us along the way. The boat rolled quite a bit, and I imagine Henry was glad when we reached port. The stench from the dhows was so great on the west side of the Manama pier, that we moved around to the east side and anchored just a little way off the pier. Then a barge came in and we moved out when I lay exhausted below; then without Abdullah captain I made the mistake of letting Yusif & Hamed take us back into the pier. After smacking against the side of one dhow, getting tangled in the line (anchor) of another dhow and scraping our side against a steel barge; they finally decided to move to Muharraq where in time we picked up both Abdullahs. I gave my watch a half hour bath in salt water yesterday, then fresh water, alcohol, kerosene, and Abdullah got it fixed for 3 1/2 rupees. I left word with the Aramco office that we were still held up in Bahrain. I went for a bicycle ride and broke a chain, then I got another bicycle and went to Muharraq [[image: mesh dome shaped trap labeled "darbuoy"]]  which is flat with a town some date palms and shallow water inlets from the sea. Both on Manama pier and in Muharraq I saw some large wire traps with single funnel and mound shaped. They were about 3 1/2 feet high and possibly 3 ft. in diameter on the bottom. May be they were gūfdar traps. When I got back from the bicycle trip, I drank about a gallon of water in a short time. The shamal blew very strong all day, and into the night. We spent the night rolling with the dhows on the dusty and stinky west side of Manama pier. The Palestine is now taking more water than before, this is just a little good news. The shamal at night blew all the dust off the dock on to our boat including splinters of wood. Sleep was hardly profitable the first half of the night. I tried the table down below, and then right on deck.
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Transcription Notes:
He spelled it "abean" but means "abeam" [sic]