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Cradle of Islam (1900); Albrecht Zehme, Arabien fend die Araber, seit hundert Jahren (1875) . ARACAJ$, a city and seaport of Brazil, capital of the state of Sergipe, 170 M . N.N.E. of Bahia, on the river Cotinguiba, or Cotindiba, 6 m. from the coast . The municipality, of which it forms a part, had a population in 1890 of 16,336, about two-thirds of whom lived in the city itself . Aracaju is a badly built town on the right bank of the river at the base of a ridge of low sand-hills and has the usual features of an unprogressive provincial capital . Good limestone is quarried in its vicinity, and the country tributary to this port produces large quantities of sugar . Cotton is also grown, and the back country sends down hides and skins for shipment . The anchorage is good, but a dangerous bar at the mouth of the river prevents the entrance of vessels drawing more than 12 ft .

The port is visited, there-fore, only by the smaller steamers of the coastwise lines . The river is navigable as far as the town of Maroim, about to m. beyond Aracaju . The city was founded in 1855 .