Sokotra

Butter is now the chief product and almost the sole export of the island, and Sokotra butter has quite a reputation in the markets along the shores of Arabia and Africa.

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Sokotra; it is about 200 feet across, and has its little beach and seaweeds all complete, with its trees and bushes in its cliffs.

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Socotrana_ of the botanist, is like the language of the Bedouin, found only on Sokotra, and is seldom more than 10 or 12 feet in height.

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An Alpine Club would find plenty of amusement in Sokotra.

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Bedouin of Sokotra will remain in their bucolic innocence to the end of time, if no root of bitterness in the shape of modern civilisation is planted amongst them.

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Sokotra itself is situated about 240 miles from Cape

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From the deck Sokotra looked almost too beautiful to leave.

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The old Sultan Salem is father to the sultan of Sokotra, which belongs to the Mahri tribe, and brother to the sultan of Saihut, another robber chief, who is equally averse to admitting Europeans to his dominions.

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We did not see any very large trees, such as we did in Sokotra.

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It is pretty dear, too, in Sokotra, as so much is used up for the _ghi_.

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