Plate I
Fig. 1. Coast of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
Sandstone hills shaded, small islandsblack. Coastline double, the outer line being the edge of thefringing reef. The thin lines enclosing roughly oval or elongatedareas at sea are the barrier reefs. Figures on sea represent depthsin fathoms.
DESERT AND WATERGARDENS
OF THE RED SEA
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Plate III
Fig. 3. A sandstorm seen from among the Barrier Reefs
DESERT AND WATERGARDENS
OF THE
RED SEA
BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THENATIVES AND THE
SHORE FORMATIONS OF THE COAST
BY
CYRILCROSSLAND
M.A. Cantab., B.Sc. Lond., F.L.S.,F.Z.S.
Marine Biologist to the Sudan Government
Cambridge:
at the University Press
1913
Cambridge:
PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A.
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TO MY WIFE
TO WHOSE BRAVE ENDURANCEOF A LARGE SHARE OF MY EXILE IS OWING MUCH OF WHATEVER I HAVEACHIEVED, OR OF WHAT SUCCESS MAY YET BE MINE
[vii]PREFACE
IT is my fortune to know intimately a portionof the Red Sea coast, that between 18° N. and 22° N. on the westernside. This must be one of the least known coastlines of the world.Until 1905, the Admiralty Chart shewed an area of 25 square milesof reef, which the surveys run for the approaches to the new townof Port Sudan have proved to be non-existent. Though a consider