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African Camp Fires

Chapter 4 SUEZ.

Word Count: 1172    |    Released on: 01/12/2017

onal speed that until I raised my head and looked out I had not realized the fact. I saw a

veiled to the eyes in gauze heavily sewn with sequins, barefooted, with massive silver anklets, watched us pass. Hindu workmen in turban and loin-cloth furnished a picturesque note, but did not seem to be injuring themselves by ove

es; big freighters, often with Greek or Turkish characters on their sterns; small dirty steamers of suspicious business; passenger ships like our own, returning from the tropics, with white-clad, languid figures reclining in canvas chairs; gunboats of this or that nation bound on mysterious affairs; once a P. & O. converted into a troopship, from whose every available porthole, hatch, deck, and shroud laughing, brown, English faces shouted chaff at our German decks-all these either tied up for us, or were tied up for by us. The only craft that received no consideration on

; the same occasional strips of green marking the watercourses and oases. As to smaller detail, we saw many interesting divergences. In the foreground constantly recurred the Bedouin brush shelters, each with its picturesque figure or so in flowing robes, and its grumpy camels. Twice we saw travelling caravans, exactly like the Bible pictures. At one place a single burnoused Arab, leaning on his elbows,

y meandered at will over the face of nature. The control stations were beautifully French and neat, painted yellow, each with its gorgeous bougainvilleas in flower, its square-rigged signal masts, its brightly painted e

ly single rank along a far-reaching narrow sand spit, with sparse trees and a railroad line. That was the town of Suez, and seemed so little interesting that we wer

e. He was of a dull coal black, without a single high light on him anywhere, as though he had been sand-papered, had prominent teeth, like those of a baboon, in a wrinkled, wizened monkey face, across which were three tattooed bands, and possessed a little, long-armed, spare figure, bent and wiry. He clambered up and down his ma

ed bargaining. In fact, so fully embarked on the tides of commerce were they, that they failed to notice the tides of nature widening between us. One old man, in especial, at the very top of his mast, jerked hither and thither by the sea, continued imploringly to offer an utterly

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1 Chapter 1 THE OPEN DOOR.2 Chapter 2 THE FAREWELL.3 Chapter 3 PORT SAID.4 Chapter 4 SUEZ.5 Chapter 5 THE RED SEA.6 Chapter 6 ADEN.7 Chapter 7 THE INDIAN OCEAN.8 Chapter 8 MOMBASA.9 Chapter 9 A TROPICAL JUNGLE.10 Chapter 10 THE SABLE.11 Chapter 11 A MARCH ALONG THE COAST.12 Chapter 12 THE FIRE.13 Chapter 13 UP FROM THE COAST.14 Chapter 14 A TOWN OF CONTRASTS.15 Chapter 15 PEOPLE.16 Chapter 16 RECRUITING.17 Chapter 17 AN OSTRICH FARM AT MACHAKOS.18 Chapter 18 THE FIRST LIONESS.19 Chapter 19 THE DOGS.20 Chapter 20 BONDONI.21 Chapter 21 RIDING THE PLAINS.22 Chapter 22 THE SECOND LIONESS.23 Chapter 23 THE BIG LION.24 Chapter 24 THE FIFTEEN LIONS.25 Chapter 25 VOI.26 Chapter 26 THE FRINGE-EARED ORYX.27 Chapter 27 ACROSS THE SERENGETTI.28 Chapter 28 DOWN THE RIVER.29 Chapter 29 THE LESSER KUDU.30 Chapter 30 ADVENTURES BY THE WAY.31 Chapter 31 THE LOST SAFARI.32 Chapter 32 THE BABU.33 Chapter 33 OVER THE LIKIPIA ESCARPMENT.34 Chapter 34 TO THE KEDONG.35 Chapter 35 THE TRANSPORT RIDER.36 Chapter 36 ACROSS THE THIRST.37 Chapter 37 THE SOUTHERN GUASO NYERO.38 Chapter 38 THE LOWER BENCHES.39 Chapter 39 NOTES ON THE MASAI.40 Chapter 40 THROUGH THE ENCHANTED FOREST.41 Chapter 41 NAIOKOTUKU.42 Chapter 42 SCOUTING IN THE ELEPHANT FOREST.43 Chapter 43 THE TOPI CAMP.44 Chapter 44 THE UNKNOWN LAND.45 Chapter 45 returned the next day from V.'s boma, bringing more potio and some trade goods. We sent a good present back to Naiokotuku, and prepared for an early start into the new country.46 Chapter 46 THE ROAN.