Poetry, Arab, 163, 164, 254, 274. Poets, Arabian, 46. Political divisions of Arabia, 26. history of Bahrein, 107. Politics in Arabia, Present, 233. Polyandry, 162. Polygamy, 162, 268, 298. Population of Arabia, 29. Bagdad, 134. Irak-Arabi, 126. Portuguese at Muscat, 81, 202. castle, Katif, 118. Postal systems of Arabia, 224. Post, Geo. E. (quoted), 186. Poverty of the Arabs, 157. Prayer, Call to, 326. for Moslems, 315. Prayer-meeting of Star-worshippers, 289. Prayers of pilgrims, 38. offered at Medina, 50. Preaching in Yerim, 66, 324. to Moslems, 384. Priesthood, Mandæan, 298. Problems of the Arabian field, 374. Prophet’s tomb at Medina, 47. Provinces of Arabia, 25. Ptolemy’s map of Arabia, 18. Railway, Anglo-Egyptian, 226. Rashid, Mohammed bin, 200. Rastak, 79. Red Sea coast, 19. Reformation, Wahabi, 192. Reformed Church in America, 353. Religion of heathen Arabs, 164. the Mahrah tribe, 85. Sabeans, 288. Renan, Ernest (quoted), 239. Report of Keith Falconer, 335. Results of missions to Moslems, 392. Rhenish missionary society, 394. Riad, 152, 201. Riggs, C. E., 361. River country, 119, 382. Rivers of Arabia, 21. Roba’-el-Khali, 143. Robbers, Bedouin, 155. Robbery among Arabs, 264. Robbery, Turkish, 69. Roda, 68. Roman empire and the Arabs, 304. Ruins at Ali, 105. in Hadramaut, 74. Ruma, Wady, 22. Russian influence, 235. interests in Arabia, 223. Sabeans, 285. Sabat, 317. Sacred mosque of Mecca, 35. Sacrifice, Sabean, 294. Sacrifices in Arabia, 39, 166. Said, Seyid, 202. Sana, 56, 67, 212. Early Christianity in, 310. Importance of, 324, 360. Sana inscription, 313. Saud, 194. School for African slave-boys, 366. Schools at Medina, 51. in Hassa, 117. of Mecca, 43. Sciences, Arabian, 274. Seba, 404. Semitic languages, 240, 241. Semites, 240. Shatt-el-Arab, 120. Sheba, 403, 404. Shehr and its ruler, 76. Sheikh Othman, 56, 335, 336. mission, 342. Shibam, 75. Shiran, Wady, 22. Shrines of Arabia, 165. Sib, 84. Sidra Rabba, 294. Sin, Koran doctrine of, 190. Sinaitic Peninsula, 302, 375. Slave School at Muscat, 366. trade, 85, 224. Smith, Eli, 256, 316. Social character of Arabs, 263. Socotra, 19, 219. Sohar, 84. Soldiers, Turkish, 216. Songs, Arabian, 275. Springs of fresh water in the Gulf, 99. Star-worshippers of Mesopotamia, 285. Steamship service to Bagdad, 131. Stern, Rev. A., 327. Stone, Geo. E., 351, 366, 371, 388. Suk-el-Shiukh, 141. Sultan of Turkey, 206. Sultans of Muscat, 79. Sumatra missions, 393. Superstitions, Arab, 165, 187, 283. Sur, 84. Sutton, Henry M., 327. Sword conquest of Islam, 184. Taif, 45. Taiz, 60, 62. Taxation, Turkish, 69, 142, 215. Tenoof, 96. Tents, Bedouin, 155, 271.