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5. 

Around Jidda one sees a fisherman wading in after the fish with a cast net, with all his clothes [[strikethrough]]on the beach[[/strikethrough]] ^[[wrapped around his head. And in this way he runs no risk of losing them on the beach.]]

Hospitality is the byword in all Arabia, land or sea. One day during a blustery shamal we visited a stake net fisherman to purchase bait. We were invited aboard by our host to pass the time of day before discussing business. We were offered fresh roasted fish and shrimp cooked over a wood fire in a small sand box on deck. A rough awning of battered canvas was our shelter from the wind. 

^[[no [[image:paragraph marker]]]] Bait was nowhere in sight. In due time we found out that the ^[[bait consisting of]] mole lobsters and crabs were living over the ships side in grass bags. 

Another day I went fishing with an Arab fisherman in Bahrain. He propelled his 20 foot boat by means of a long pole with an iron point and barb at one end. The bottom of Manama Bay varied from grass to grey muck sand, to gravel sand and coral rock. Live coral growth was not abundant. Every now and then he would stop, dive over and pick up a fish trap which would contain several small porgies and [[underlined]]Siganus siganus[[/underlined]] "sawfee sunaifee". For bait he pounded "hashish", a kind of green sea lettuce similar to [[underlined]]Ulva[[/underlined]], with stones and made a sort of ball which he placed in the traps. "Hashish" is supposed to be good bait for "sawfee", which is 5 to 8 inches in length and is an excellent pan fish. Later on he picked up some dead porgies on the bottom, but they were still fresh. "Sim" a native fish poison was the cause of their deaths. 

Enthusiasm and skill for hook and line fishing has no limits in Arabia. One launch crew man would squat each evening on the after rail, cast his line ^[[f]]ar out, and barely move the line back and forth between his thumb and forefinger. He averaged about two fish every five minutes during the time he fished and he