The pearl-fishers at yemen and Massaua asserted that there was no coral near the pearl-banks at nine fathoms depth, but only sand.
"Coral-Reefs"
Darwin, Charles
"Even Lebanon," said Fakredeen, "can send forth more than fifty thousand well-armed footmen, and Amalek is gathering all the horsemen of the desert, from Petraea to yemen, under our banner.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
The beau ideal of an Arab beauty, according to the Arabian poets Havivi and Montannibi, is, that "Her person should be slender like the bending rush, or taper lance of yemen."
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson