Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-07-11

occasionally. This part of our journey
we were told would be the most trying
on account of the intense heat, bu,
contrary to all predictions this part OF
our journey proved to be very pleas.
rather too cool ii anything after the
extreme equatorial climate. 1t took
us five days and nights to pass through
the Red Sea. We had the pleasure oi
seeing the place where Moses and his
followers crossed the Red Sea, but
when one comes face to face with
what we are told are facts it strikes
one as highly improbable, In fact.
think If Moses were here to tell the
straight of it he would dlspel such q
theory. IL is more likely that Moses
left Egypt by the same route tina,
Joseph was taken to Egypt after h.
was sold TO the Egyptians.
The Red Sea is about $50 miles wide
at the widest part but at the place
where you enter the Indian Ocean i,
is only about fifteen miles, and abou,
the same at the placs where we
entered the canal. We dropped two
bottles over board and filled them with
water out of the sea where Moses is
supposed to have crossed aud il he
really did cross think that Moses and
us are great people, and am glad tina,
he did cross, also that we had the good
fortune to come this way. We were
much disappointed at not being able
to see Mount Sinai, the place where
Moses is supposed to have found the
plates but the weather was very hazy
when we passed this particular part
/ We passed through the Suez canal
which took us about sixteen hours and
we enjoyed it very much. We passed
several stations on the railroad which
runs along close to the canal: close
enough In places to almost talk to the
passengers ON the trains. This rail.
road runs to Alexandria and Cairo
There are small lakes along the canal
the name of which are the Little
Bitter Lakes. We stopped in one OF
these at place called Ishmalia, bu,
only long enough to put off some pas.
sengers and was so far from the town
that we could not get good view
| We arrived at Port Said at 4 Z
N on the 7th day of May and went
ashore. This place is in Egypt.
We found Port Said to be YER,
pretty place. The population is {
conglomeration OF all nationali.
ties-even the Yankee is here.
believe every nation under the SUI
is represented here in all the kinds
Of business. Thetow is laid out
nicely, and there are some good
buildings of stone and brick; it is
not so much place for curiosities
as other places that We had passed
through. 1t is more home like
in fact | think it would make 6
very desirable place to live. There
are several buildings Of impor.
tance but the best one is DeLesep's
Palace. De Lesep is the man that
engineered this canal through
which must have been quite an
undertaking at the time, but he
made a success of it, although he
failed on the same kind of an un.
dertaking across the lsthmus OF
Panama. Port Said looms up to
agreat advantage looming in on
the boat. 1t is all in sight, the
country is level for miles around,
We returned to boat very reluct.
antly, feeling that we were only
partially satisfied, as we only had
about six hours to view the place.
We left Port Said about IL D. M,
and passed out into the Mediter-
anean, and after monotenous
journey of five days we arrived in
Naples, Italy. Our journey
through the Mediterranean was OF
no special Importance. We passed
few islands but did not stop. II
only became interesting when we
came in sight of land at the ex.
treme southern partof Italy. The
sights were principally mountain
} scenery, which was very nice nc
doubt to persons that had nor
been accustomed to mountain seen.
cry, but we have often seen Jus,
as good, if not better in our owr
Rockies. We arrived in Naples OF
the 18th of May, where our boa
stopped about twenty hours, which
was not half long enough to SEE
the City of Naples itself, and ther
} it was in the night when we ar
rived there, and could not %
ashore till morning.
Naples from what we saw of il
is great place. We visited the