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Ch. 12: Persian Gulf & Red Sea Pearl Fisheries

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CHAPTER XII. The Persian Gulf and Red Sea Fisheries.
" Heaps of Pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea."
—Richard III. Act I., Scene IV.
EARLS have been found from time immemorial in the waters that wash
- the shores of " Araby the blest." The Persian Gulf, which separates Arabia from Persia, has been the scene of Pearling operations certainly for more than two thousand years, and probably for a much longer period. Isidorus of Charax, a Greek historian, who is said to have lived three centuries before the Christian era, tells us in his description of Parthia, that "in the Persian sea is a certain island where abundance of the Pearl-oyster is to be found. Wherefore rafts of reeds are stationed all around the island, from off which the divers,
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