The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 9
The History of the Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire 9
Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794
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Along the shores of the Persian gulf, of the ^^^^,1^ ocean, and even of thq Red Sea, the Icthyopbagi^^ Arabs. or fish-eaters, continued to wander in quest of their precarious food. In this primitive and abject state, which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation. Generations and ages might roll away in silent oblivion, and the helpless savage was restrained from multip...lying his race, by the wants and pursuits which con- fined his existence to the narrow margin of the . sea-coast. But in an early period of antiquity, the great body of the Arabs had emerged from this scene of misery ; and as the naked wilderness could not ^naintain a people of hunters, they rose at once to the more secure and plentiful condition of the pastoral life. The same life is uniformly pursued by the roving tribes of the desert, and in the portrait of the modern BedoweenSy we may trace the features of their ancestors f , who, in the * Arrian remarks the Icthyophagi of the coast of Hejaz, (PeripKis Maris Erythraei, p.
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