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a mistake in putting the poison all in one spot near the surf.  Nevertheless the capture of several worm eels, Dascyllus, and a new wrasse probably made it worthwhile.  ^[[insertion]] Small [[/insertion]] Gulls almost black in color helped to collect specimens for themselves.  Alot of small silversides were hit.
  This evening, I went out to Sam's pier, and waded around with the spear.  I tried the windward coral side first but saw nothing; so I went to the lee side where the bottom was mostly mud sand.  I saw a large grouper black and brown (possibly 3 or 4 lbs) lying still in the open on the sand.  I got poised with the spear, but he didn't wait.  Then I speared a crab out of disgust which was fatal because I saw a Platycephalus, and missed it on account of the crab.  Then I saw a black sting going along, and it was a fair sized sting ray.  I speared him but did not push hard enough.  There was a great commotion and it got away, and cut close by me; so it was not pleasant.  Then I saw a smaller one.  I hit him or her twice before I could shove the spear thru.  I saw it when I had a Siganus on the spear.  Needless to say I pulled of the [[underline]] Siganus [[/underline]].  Near the dock I saw an octopus and speared it.  Mr. Campbell came along about that time.  With 2 specimens to care for, I thought it a good time to quit.  On the windward side of the dock in the reef grass there was a grey deal of phosphorescent animals in the water, like small sparkling diamonds.  Silversides and halfbeaks were attracted to the light.  I also saw gerrids as well as siganids on the bottom.
  July 4 - I went down to the fish market with Hasane in the jeep about 9 A.M.  There were alot more fish than the other day, but there were not any highly colored wrasse or parrotfish.  The most abundant fish was salmoni a long flat round clupeoid about 20˚ T.L. with a forked tail, and it look something like Elops.  Mullet and 2 kinds of jacks were also plentiful.  The flies, however, exceeded all else in number.  I took one picture of 2 
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black parrots, a red squirrel, and a black Siganus (1 riyal).  The rest of the morning, I worked on yesterday's specimens.  I saw several new fish including a spadefish (or possibly it was that large grey [[underline]] A. canthinus [[/underline]], and a silver croaker shaped fish with black dots.
This afternoon, I went with Hasane and Oli south of the city.  The desert is whiter sand there, and there is no hard road, the beach is sand going down to water with mud sand bottom which is very shallow deepening to about 2 feet gradually.  There were several small sand & reef rock islands.  One we waded to had small trees on it they looked like mangroves with [[image: pen sketch of a small tree with two sprouts]] the straight sprouts, but there were none in the water.  And the largest were scarcely 2 feet high.  Several islands further out had more and apparently larger trees possibly 3 or 4 feet high.  There were blue crabs, & crabs, and shrimp, and a [[underline]] Platycephalus [[/underline]], & Cyprinodon dispar in the water.  This water runs behind outlying islands and reefs, and probably accounts for its character.  We went on a little further south and saw a few dug out canoes in the distance, but about the same type of bottom.  In fact the mud was so that we sank too deep into it for comfort, and it is so mixed with coral sand as to be sharp & uncomfortable.  Thus the shore south of Jidda is rather less productive for collecting than the shore to the north.  We also saw a new large almost black heron, a couple of terns, and several small white plovers.  The jeep we had was always running out of water; so we had our troubles, and returned about 4:30 PM.  At the last spot we stopped at there were tree seedlings three or four growing in about 10" of salt water about 50 feet offshore.  [[image: pen sketch of tree seedling]]  The leaves as well as the other trees were reminescent of mangroves.  Why these seedlings were growing here (just three or four widely scattered, I don't know.  [[image: pen sketch of a dried pod]] The fruit dried pod of the tree was cylinder shaped and reminescent of a wasps nest in appearance.

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@siobhanleachman - Transcription centre uses ^[[text]] to indication hand written text in typed project. For insertions they prefer [[insertion]] text [[insertion]]. If a ^ is used, I transcribe as ^[[insertion]] text [[/insertion]] Hope this helps. clupeoid - of, relating to, or belonging to the Isospondyli (or Clupeiformes)