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I made it. We left the field about 1:30 P.M. in a shamal but with fair visibility. Nevertheless until 3:00 P.M. there was too much dust to see land. But between 3:00 & 3:30 P.M. we passed over several towns and date gardens in the middle of the desert. At 3:50 P.M. at 11,000 ft. the temperature was 22°c in the plane and 20°c on the floor, and it felt cold. At 4:30 P.M. we saw big cumulus clouds to the west. Then we passed over reddish sands, salt flats, white sands, tan sands, brown and finally a belt of larval black sand. Also we passed over rocky hills of brown rock, and sand rock mountains. We reached Jidda about 6:00 P.M. and saw camel trains going off into the desert, and we saw the Red Sea. Aramco house is situated conveniently at the edge of town and not far from salt water. There is an inlet with rock and sand bottom and [[underlined]] Elodea [[/underlined]] growing at its edge which a native was picking and putting in a basket. The quarters are good here, and things look alright. There are dhows in the harbor and there was a good red sunset with small rounded cumulus clouds.
  June 30 - Fair and clear this morning with a strong breeze from the northwest. After breakfast, I walked around town and watched the various sights including colored women pounding grain. [[Image: a woman with a baby strapped to her back. The woman is holding a large club-like stick raised above a cut-away view of a basket (of grain, presumably)]] One woman had a baby strapped on her back while she was pounding away. Every time she hit the grain the baby got a jolt, and somehow he or she did not enjoy it. I saw a fisherman going down the street with a pole over his shoulder a large Chorinemus at one end 3 ft. and a 3 ft. [[underlined]] Cybium commersonnii [[/underlined]] and 2 or 3 small [[underlined]] Tylosurus [[/underlined]] at the other end. Another had [[image: a man with a pole on his shoulder with fish hanging from each end of the pole.]]  a string of smaller fish including Lethrinids, , [[strikethrough]] sparisoma [[/strikethrough]] [[insertion]] scarus ? [[/insertion]] and blackish green wrasse, and a goatfish.
  The rest of the morning, I put all the rotenone in two flour bags, and found several leaks in the bottom of the 16 gal. tank
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Brain corals Gubat Ashra [[images: pink coral and dirty yellow coral]]

which I got fixed up for 2 r. This afternoon, I walked along the small cove just north of the main part of Jidda which is not far from Aramco house. The west shore was mostly rocks and Elodea the north arm was mud sand with green scum weed (something like Big Mund) with hundreds of [[underlined]] Cyprinodon dispar [[/underlined]] all around. The males had the yellowish dorsal end distinctly banded square caudal, but I did not catch any, only a small blue crab. There were also numerous mud hole crabs like fiddlers only the claws were equal in size. Then there were hundreds of pointed snail shells (I collected some) It was low tide, and the water deepens very gradually, somewhat like Tarut bay. [[image: conch shell]] There were strange looking conch shells with a forward projecting point, just the opposite of the usual conch shell. [[image: uneven five-pointed spotted figure, somewhat like a deformed starfish]] There was also a branched kind of sponge on the beach. The small stems were [[strikethrough]] yell [[/strikethrough]] greenish, the larger stem rusty brown. Numerous dilapidated dogs lay in the sand along the beach in one spot.
  July 1 - Up at 5 A. M., which is an hour or so after sunrise here, Stuart Campbell took me out on Sam's pier, belonging to S.A.M.S. Saudi-Arab Mineral Co: which is about 2 miles north of Jidda at Ruais. It is at least a 1/4 mile long, and is a scarce fathom and a half of water at the end of the pier. The water for a long way varies from a few inches to 2 or 3 feet. Off the end of the pier we could see sergeant majors and snappers and also white peduncled doctorfish. On the north side of the pier a 100 ft. in from the end was an interesting area with brown sea weed, scattered coral, and hard sand bottom. Pomacentrids, butterfly fishes, and spot snappers were in good evidence. Mr. Campbells name for the shrimp in the holes with the [[underlined]] Periophthalmus [[/underlined]] is "bulldozer fish" the [[other? or otter?]] is the "watch dog." The [[underlined]] Periophthalmus [[/underlined]] looked similar to the Persian Gulf variety, but may be different. I thought