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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 7682, 16 January 1886, Page 3

Advices from the Red Sea continue to describe the discomforts experienced at Snakin as. very serious. The English soldiers; it is said, are ‘ a pitiful sight,’ not one man . in fairly healthy condition, while even the Indian troops are .grumbling bitterly, and almost mutinous. The heat is tremendous, the frequent sandstorms most distressing, and the deaths very numerous. But if Snakin be bad, Massowah, which the Italians have occupied, is worse, A private letter says :— * We called in at Massowah, and had to anchor for the night, and a more frightful, horrible night I never spent; not a breath of air, and, the thermometer 122 deg. Pahr. This is no .exaggeration ; we were panting about the deck ;. the heat seemed to choko you; sleep was out of the question. Some negroes seemed to feel the heat more than Europeans, . and were . groaning fearfully; and pouring buckets of water over their heads, wh job, however, was of very Ijftie uso, qs the water.was between 95 degs, and lOOdeg. i?abr. Five Italian officers have committed suidide, and no wonder I Aden, after Snakin and Massowah, is a perfect paradise,’—British Medical Journal,