The local Government sent to Hodeida and other ports for grain, and rice, and thus avoided the horrors of a complete famine.
"A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People"
Henry Blanc
The captain of the Hodeida was not too exorbitant in his demand of 500 rupees to drop our party at Merbat.
"Southern Arabia"
Theodore Bent Mabel Bent
This khat, gathered in the mountains back of Hodeida, on the Red Sea not far from Bab el Mandeb, had been preserved by a process known to only a few Coast Arabs.
"The Flying Legion"
George Allan England