The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1922-04-14

street you see a solid wall of houses,
but here and there you see through
an opening that there are yards and
some greenery in back. 1t is a very
common sight to see group OF
women sitting outside the door sew
ing, or perhaps doing their washing
which is hung along the sides of the
buildings. On the way we saw
lemons, lines and oranges growing
Arrived at Pompeii we were quite
ready to do justice to a good dinner
with, of course, the famous Italian
mac aroni for our first course ano
their characteristic desert Of tanger'
ines for our last. Our visit to Pom.
peii was of necessity rather hurried
but we saw enough to show us what 6
very wicked city it must have beer
with its magnificent temples to false
gods, it's wine cellars and wine shops
public baths, gladiatorial combats
red light districts, etc., etc. The
buildings must have been magnificent
in their day and some of the decora.
tions of the walls are still preserved
even the walls of the servants
quarters being decorated with paint.
ings. The museum, near the en-
trance contains many interesting
specimens of Pompeiian days as we
looked at the various exhibits, ii
didn't seem that we had made much
progress in these nearly 1000 years,
for Pompeii was destroyed in A. D.
70. Some petrified bodies showed by
the position Ct the body and the ex-
preston of the face the intense agony
they had undergone.
With this before the eyes of the
people and Vesuvius above them still
smoking, it seemed it must be an
awful warning to the people of Gods
Judgment upon sin and the destruc-
ton which must await those who per-
sist in it's indulgence. We came away
with thankful hearts that our sins are
under the blood and deeper desire
to warn others of the necessity of
taking refuge in Christ if they are to
escape the penalties of sin.
Some put in a good deal of time
visiting surrounding towns and going
through the public buildings of
Naples, but, aside from a little
expedition, this covers my
Shopping is very inter-
esting, inasmuch as very few know
English and you have to tax your in
genuity to make them understand by
signs and a smattering of Spanish
what you want. Then, too, scarcely
any have a fixed price, but expect
you to beat them down about third.
Since this is something we must
practice in India also, we took our
first lessons there. 1t was quite cold
all the time we were in Naples and
even with steam on, we sat about in
our coats to kept warm. Had the
first snow storm for years while we
were there.
Thursday night we started for Port
Said, Egypt, sail of four days,
reaching there Monday night about
$50. The first day out was very in
teresting as we followed along the
coast of Italy and watched the ever
changing view of the hills with their
strata-like layers and occasional viii
ages of limestone nestled among
the green. Although the sea was
like glass. after six days at stand
still, some found it even more dis
turbing than at the start. AS for
myself, I escaped with only head
ache. Who knows what your prayers
nay have accomplished in this re-
gard! Early Friday morning we
passed through the Strait of Messine,
where Paul went on his journey to
Rome, with Sicily on our right.
Arrived at Port Said, we learned
ate in the evening if we wanted
.opees we would have to go ashore
hat night, so with one of the en-
yineers as a guide we started out.
Guides almost force themselves upon
rou and fortunately we took one
along, as the stores were closed, and
re prevailed upon one owner, to open
10 for US. There is nothing dis
about Port Said, except
hat it is the wickedest place on
earth and the people are noted for
heir thieving, but we found it very
interesting. inasmuch as everything
vas new. One thing we noticed that
1ere many could speak English and
We had no difficulty in making our
selves understood. Here you could
pass English, French or Egyptian
money, or even the u. 5. currency.
You would have been interested to
see the divers go in the water after a
coin and they never failed to get it
either. We unloaded cargo and took
on food supplies. some of the incest
oranges l ever tasted Here we also
lost nine of our passengers, DIR. Wat
sen and family, secretary and music
teacher. who were going to Cairo,
where he has established an Ameri-
can college.
One interesting thing here was the
coaing of the ship. There were
hundred natives in their
flowing garb, unloading the coal from
big flatboats, carrying the coal in
baskets on top of their heads up the
long swinging gang planks and down
again on the trot all the while sing
ing some weird song. | believe they
call it the quickest coaling station
there is.
A little after noon we started on
our way through the Suez Canal. The
Canal being very shallow, in order
for steamers to pass there are wider
places built out at intervals and
twice we were held up to meet other
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