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Excerpt from Travels in North and Central China
After a six - days' voyage from Malta to Alexandria, and a week spent among friends in the Delta and at Cairo, where I received the freshest news con cerning the rebuilding of Khartum and the Sirdar's plans for the Sudan, I hastened to Ismailia and secured a cabin on board the P. And O. Steamer Arcadia, a. Beautiful and comfortable vessel. On the 18th of March, 1899, we steamed southwards, the season being that between the two monsoons, when both the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean are usually at rest, and in the calmest of weather we passed the hours with the usual games and gossip, books and stories. At Aden between 60 and 70 passengers left us and, though we had still about 120 on board, the big ship seemed deserted. Among those who remained were four Russians on their way to China, who exemplified the common remark that Russians usually seem happier and more at ease2 tra vets IN north an!) central china.
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