ON THE WAY TO INDIA.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 144, 3 June 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

ON THE WAY TO INDIA.

THE SUEZ CANAL: THE RED SEA.

Tlic journey through the Suez Canal, ? distance of about one hundred miles, is a. -slow one, as we may not wash ! "'*jy these banks, which cost eighty million dollars to build, with the swash o» a too. rapid progress. Watchmen, .ci ouching about their small fires at night, dot the shores on both sides. For the first time I see camels actually at WO i h “ to those Barnum and Bailey .oafers of my boyhood. In the glare of the searchlight, the sandv desert on both sides ot the canal is so blight that every now and again one catches a glimpse of a fox, a jackal, or hjena, and all through the night one hears their tories. 'The sunsets, the light, and the stillness, are all different, all new to me. The sunsets are anTn °T shade ’. ll rat . hcr than colours, s’vs E !F p^ o ' f l u 7*"e is right when he says— Ge sont les couleurs.” There !.i a ," aleldosc ope brilliancy about these c mudless sunsets, a stabbing at your nUn + ' rit r Vlvld sliafts and shades, with hl t nd P ,lr P> 'and brown artist a nnJ h™? ke me " ish 1 were an to the J? 1 ? 11 conve rt me at once to the truthfulness 6f my Eastern 'vhich I had disbelieved The cokin^ e rt S roD ’ thi ”K you Phvsically’they PC, P e I fcual but I nysieally they are always in a bl?s» IhJv ° r - 1,1 . Pitch darkness. PeXnf rtX keepin « theil ' minds in a Aftei• fhTsX aS a Sea and or the C °” leS t,le Red eioht 1, a the Arabian coast, about, f'-ht hundred miles south, is Jiddah I •s ihe 71 ? lnte, ; est .’" Tiddah. but Jiddah ) the .eaport ot Mecca, and someho-v brai i r°'r lm reCC h reve, ’herates in mv niain. I have been wont to mention a Patam, Kamchatka. Timhucto” -mi Mecca and Seoul, as far-aw-av’ in-?; T: fc i of plac - s ’ t —"" x: ikey to bo near, much less to visit Lam sam Mars That comes of living; r die West. Bnt here I am. and f cannot get quite awake to the fact , J ’ ddah > too actually has the torn? r.. Kve. J hat impresses mv imagination very much. Not that this first laimom- o f the East devitalises mv tn’gV””- ” Db ’ lu '-*» r G tmnfing 1 • q" m h’V 0 ”/' 1 a eeninn-c of S, i i ,ner s Magazine ’’