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inc Vo"me entitled Aor~ss Persia oy
Z. CRAwsHAT WILLIAMS edward Arnold.
This 10 the record Of a tourney occupying
n mood o.nv mor,hs vhlch the .utbor
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commission In the Royal Field Artillery
IN india. His course lay first up the
Persian u and thence acrJss the Sbah's
dominiOns to the Caspian Sea.
Starting from Bombay and stopping
briefly mt Gulf ports, he put in finally At
Bushire, his port OF debarcation. Bushire
has. We are told. at least two %incOnvsn-
iences-its climate and it's haTbor. The
former is typical Of the Persian Gulf; that
In to say, 1t is inst tOlerable in winter and
harbOr Of Busbire is also typical. inasmuch
a.. like almost all Persian Ravens. II does
not allow ships OF any magnitude to come
nearer than a mile or so to the actual
landing place consequently the trans
shipment Of passengers and freight mas
90 bo made in small native craft. bushlre'
II seems. II a place Of narrow little white
lanes drab cOlored buIidlngs with nat
hglIAoi nfNa HtiaiU md aUtoIIV ha Zanrn HIT
also with a scafront which serves Tor a
boulevard and a fashionable promenade
This presents an animated scene IN the
relstiVe GOODNESS OF a December morning
With the twinEIng waves lapring the
sninlng sands, groups OF washer"omeh
bend'ns over the WAFER ana chiloren snou'-
ing ~ their games mere II on course
anotner side OF bushlre' mar OF nitny
sleys' dust heaps, Old ~ltnered hsgs'
pegSarS Sck ana detormed' mere again
bushire ~ ~pronounceo typacai OF rers'a-
. gorgeous mixture OF dazze ana osrx-
ness. luxury ana misery Osauty ana Nun:
Oewi'derng me tnlno 10y a~iVernauons OF
majesty a"u horror. One tnlns seetneu
certain 10 our 'iaNe"er' hamely' Una ms
s,'n"Iy e"or's u" tnat country shouiu De
u.ec'eu primarily 10 INC Ihprovemeh'
VI sanitary c~Ohui.onS' 10 VI" uhnusloh
on a kho"leuge OF remeuies anu OF the
nietnOus OF oisease prevention me ma
yves " rerSis Aho" "Mat tnsy want 'no
man VINO can olhs com'or1 10 '"ei' sui
AVInis' VenetSVou'
me norma rerslah 10 uescriDeu Oy our
Autnor as q hsno"e man ~ 70 even
nvSrreu nat mere are rev more sood
IOOAInS Iaces nan NE On the iaSe oi une
eartn' WIN q Hhe nut Uro"n anu some-
unes sven hHhUeT C"nPieAIoh' ne mas
sp'snuIu eyes' We" nOuiueu features anu
oVl-"ay-OAT sr Which gives MIN a Nlrhe
aspect us costume ny no means ses
on ms comehness, On the Top OF ms Gao
10 STUCK u ne Oeiohgs 10 the upper classes
= Di1oA ANUS WOOL STRUCTURE shapeu INC
. 'lunoatcu CONE so"neWhat resembling
q Top nat WITHOUT the orih' ms Is the
symDol on the mlhtary man wen OF the
IoWer glasses anect a Diack OF
smootn' sum ciotn' inc shape Oh wnlcn ~
ny our autnOr 20 an lnverVeo
saucopan rom ooneath thisP pro-
cluuos a. t"o o~cN mugs MASS Oh Drown
n@r' Whlch generahy curS upward from
ocnesth tine nat out rs cut snort at the
neck py clean snsV@u nne. a loose non
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she "Ast' ~nIcn gives inc "earer the aP-
peaI~hco Oi having on . olouse ana snort
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nuso; iuIry POS"tee"' wn'e OeIo~ the rer-
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