Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-01-04

On thc German East Arican steam
er t'el marshall
| am on German steamer, OF 5000
tons, sailing down ibc gsd sea. We
took ship three days oso at Por, Said,
ana were is hours going through the
Src2 cannl We tarried "a while az
suos, and wc are now off Port Sudnm
where tho new railroads across the Nj
hiitn desert besnr. We arc just on
roSite Jcddph whore, according To- TIA
Mohanmclans. Mother Eve was buried
and whrre the pileifm .t3rj ont over
the desert 20 Mecca With the ships
glass one can almost see the place
whore tho greatest grandmother of all
mankind lies. She rests outside die
wall in tomb 400 feet tong, and "a
mosque rises ovcr her Dust. You have
heard the .Mohnmmedan story Of huv
Adam fell. Eve gave him the apple
and he ate ii, and as a punishmlHt
both he and she wore cnst out OF NJ
Gnrden Of Eden As ihCy dropped q
strong west Wind was blowing, aud thIs
waited the fairy form OF Eve to Ara
bia, while Adam, with his heavier
weight. fell down in Ceylon There IL
n string of coral keys running from
Ceylon tn Hindoostnn. which is SIN
known as Adnm's bridge. aud IL was
over them that he started out OH his
long hunt FOR Eve. ~ took him 300
years To find her, and the meeting was
aomephere ltt1r Mecca. What be-
came of Adani's homes we do not know,
but those OF Eve arc supposed to lie
at Jouoah.
ODD FEATURES or TIE RED seq,
,fcddah Is Just about hlif way down
the Red sea IT took US 50 honrs TO
come itere, and we shall te fully thJt
long 81 steamias TO the STRAIT al sab
el~Mandeb. whore @c ogter thc lNdic
ocean. TIE Red sea Is mighty emsn
on IN NIP. It looks llkc scratch
between Asia aud Africs; b,u ton
scratch IS actually about Zoo miles
wide ia many places, a2d so donD tntt
the most OF tie BlJo Ridge maurtnin-
could he 6rorpcd down into II. and only
Their higher peaks would roach tho SIR
face. The Red sea IS 50 long that II y
began IT Ireland, and extended west
ward across the .ttiqntic. it Woui0 60
half way to Canada II II could lie
lifted W and laid down upon tn
United States With Spcz at PAiiada
nhia, Bab-el-Mandab would BE- 100
miles or so beyond Omaha. Neb.. ana
all he way between would be a sen
canal as wide as from Kew Yori to
modatc all the navios OF me world
abreast. ana leave 100 miles or more 10
spare.
a RIVAL FOR THE sUEz CANAL.
This mighty waterway norrows al
most to a point at each end. Where |
1t leaves the Indian ocean it is no |
wider than The English channel at |
Dover, and II Is lost at the north IN /.
the SuoZ canal. Starting at Babel |
the coasts broaden out and
then run almost straight to the upper |
end, where they fork into two CULTS |
and inclose TIE lower part of the Sinal |
peninsula. Those two CUFFS are those |
of SueZ and Akabah. The gulf of Suez |
Is 40 miles long, and 1t has been join
ed to the Mediterranean by the Suez ]
canal The gulf OF AlSabnh is Ito miles
long. and capitalists are now talking |
of making a canal from 1t TO the Med
iterraneau. The Akahah canal would |
he Il considerable distance east OF the !
Suez canal, but 1t would practically !
parallel it. 1t would run through Turk
ish territory, and for this reason il
can be built without infringing on the
Sue2 canal concession. which relates
to Egypt alone | am told that a new
canal would pay we'll That OF Sue1
is already overcrowded, and there is |
enough business for two.
As to tho Red sea Itself, it has deep |
water throughout. Along the main |
channel there Is a fun half mile of salt
sea under the ships, and In some places
1t is more than a mile aud n half deep.
The average depth Of the gulf of Suez