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738  (Author:Henry Gannett)  YELLOW-TAIL. This is given by men to a variety of  es, chiefly of the family of s, which have this in common, that they are edible and have a yellow. As the latter peculiarity, which has found expression in the s of chrysurus, xanthurus, &c., of systematic, is not confined to that family, very different kinds of es bear the same : thus, for instance, the  of the  apply it to  of the  family (Sciænidæ) and to others. the most important kinds of these es, the yellow-tail of the and the southern -, are  of the  Seriola, Seriolichthys, and Micropteryx, some of which, like Seriola lalandii and S. gigas, attain to the size of a  or a, and are  in a similar manner, either  or. They abound in many localities, and are valued as  everywhere. They form a large proportion of the  which are ed from the  to  and, or are sold to the  visiting the. They are equally abundant at, where, however, their value as an article of does not seem to be fully understood. On the s of and  they are likewise a staple article of, but are chiefly eaten fresh, the most esteemed  being Seriola lalandii, also known to the  as the &quot;king-fish.&quot;  YEMEN, in, literally the land “on the right hand” of one who faces east, meant originally all the land southwards from (Shám). The Arabia Felix (εὐδαίμων) of Ptolemy and other ancients is a mistranslation, the right being taken to mean “lucky” (δεξιός, dexter). Arabia Felix included all Arabia except the of   and the n  : i.e., it took in the  and  as well as South Arabia. The use the term Yemen in various extensions. A of  makes Yemen and Shám meet at ; but  already confines the name to all  south of. This usage, which excludes and  from Yemen, is not merely that of, who take  as their imaginary standpoint, but is found in the. When speaks of a Yemenite, Ṭarafa, of  - from Yemen, Labíd of a youth from Yemen who knew , or a  of  of the excellent work of a Yemenite , they all mean by Yemen the southern region where , , and  had their early home in the. The northern boundary of Yemen is variously laid down. makes it a line drawn obliquely from to ; but  rightly draws it farther north, from  and  in the south of  by way of, , and  to  (Kotumble of the Admiralty chart, in  17° 52′). In its narrowest limitation Yemen comprises, not the whole south of the, but only the south-west as far as , which was viewed as a dependency of Yemen. The conformation of the south-western portion of the  differs greatly from that of  proper, being similar to that of. A range of, which rises into peaks of considerable , and descends with a steep slope towards the of the , stretches from the southern extremity northwards as far as. This range is pierced by several s and es, which flow into the. In old times the region cannot of course have been called “the Southland” by its own inhabitants.

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Sabæans.—The ancient name of the people of Yemen was Saba (Saba’ with final ); and the oldest notices of them are in the Scriptures. The list of the sons of in Gen. x. 26–29 contains in  form a record of peoples of South Arabia which must rest on good information from Yemen itself. Many of these are found on the inscriptions or in the ,—Sheba (Saba’), Hazarmaveth (Ḥaḑramaut), Abimael (Abime‘athtar), Jobab (Yuhaibib, according to Halévy), Jerah (Waráḥ of ), Joktan ( Ḳaḥtan; waḳata= ḳaḥata). On the other hand, the of some famous  mentioned on the inscriptions are lacking, from which it may be concluded that they did not rise to prominence till a later date. Saba’ (Sheba) itself, which was in later times the chief, has in Gen. x.28 a subordinate place; it was perhaps only a collective for the  of  who conducted the South-Arabian   (the root saba’ in the inscriptions meaning to make a  journey), and in that case would be of such late origin as to hold one of the last places in a list that has  form. Two other accounts in Genesis, originally independent, give supplementary information drawn from the Sabæan, the stations and established to facilitate  through the. The inscriptions of  by D.H. Müller show that there were Minæan  in. Other South Arabs, and especially the Sabæans, doubtless also planted settlers on the northern routes, who in process of time united into one community with their  and neighbours. Thus we can understand how in Gen. xxv.2–3 Sheba and Dedan appear among the North-Arab “sons of .” Again, the Sabæans had in  and there mingled with the ; and so in Gen. x.7 Sheba and Dedan, the sons of  (Raghma), appear in the  of the ites. With the ns Saba’ means “men,” a clear indication of their Sabæan descent. The of Sheba who visited  may have come with a   to, to see the great  