The Persian Gulf is a Mediterranean sea in Western Asia, and is an extension of the Indian Ocean.

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Tom-tom Players. (Volume 3): "I come from Mocha, and so does Peter, my companion; only his father belongs to what we call the Abshee tribe, and that’s what makes him so much darker than what I am. The Abshee tribe are now outside of Arabia, up by the Gulf of Persia. They are much the same as the Mucdad people,—it’s all the same tribe like."