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Title: A sketcher's tour round the world
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Elwes, Robert
Subjects: Voyages around the world Voyages around the world
Publisher: London : Hurst and Blackett, Publishers ...
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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such wasthe case. As a passer-by, I admired the black rocks, brightsand, deep purple bay, and blue and violet mountains; andthe brown camels and Arabs, with their white burnoose andturbans, were quite in character with the scene. But to aresident, I acknowledge it must seem the vilest spot in theworld, and hence, I suppose, the tradition that it is the graveof Cain. Yet, within a few miles of this barren and burnt-up place, there is a fine and fertile country, part of ArabiaFelix, though, as the inhabitants are hostile to us, it is littleknown. Aden is situated at the entrance of the Red Sea, onthe Asiatic side of the Straits of Babelmandel. As the hotel has to take in a great number of passengersfor one or two nights, its arrangements are rather singular.Besides a few private rooms for ladies, &c., there is one longapartment full of beds, ranged side by side like a barrack, orrather, more like Long Chamber at Eton. One side isall windbws, with matting to keep the place as cool as
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p THE CANTONMENT. 393 possible, yet the heat is very great; and as we were notsleepy, we took off most of our clothes, and sitting onour ■ beds, one of the party read aloud the two last numbersof the Home News, which we met at this half-wayhouse. The next morning, before it was light, the natives camedown to the hotel with horses, and we started for the can-tonment. The road led at first along the shore at the footof the mountains, and then, striking up the side of the steep,passed through a strongly fortified gateway, and a narrowpassage deeply cut in the rock, at the end of which we camein sight of the village, situated on a little pLin, surroundedby red hills. This plain and valley is generally said to bethe crater of an extinct volcano, but I saw nothing to warrantsuch a conclusion, though the whole of the surroundingcountry bore evident marks of volcanic action. The houses in Aden are usually thatched with rushes. Inone building larger than the others, I saw a number of soldier

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