Ten years in Equatoria; . the con-struction of the Canal, and who have not yet gone away, are con-suming there thegain which they soeasily obtained for-merly, and the le-gion of employesthat once enlivenedthe town is now re-duced to a fewagents of a Naviga-tion Company. The Italian colonyconsists of onlyabout 100 persons;the Consul, vSignorVito, is beloved andesteemed as an in-telligent and en-lightened man, withfrank and courteousmanners; he wasvery kind to meduring my shortresidence there. I thought thatwhen the timearrived for me toleave Suez, I couldreach Suakim in afew days, but Sig-ner B
Ten years in Equatoria; . the con-struction of the Canal, and who have not yet gone away, are con-suming there thegain which they soeasily obtained for-merly, and the le-gion of employesthat once enlivenedthe town is now re-duced to a fewagents of a Naviga-tion Company. The Italian colonyconsists of onlyabout 100 persons;the Consul, vSignorVito, is beloved andesteemed as an in-telligent and en-lightened man, withfrank and courteousmanners; he wasvery kind to meduring my shortresidence there. I thought thatwhen the timearrived for me toleave Suez, I couldreach Suakim in afew days, but Sig-ner Bernard, anagent of the Rubat-tino Company, in-formed me that theship Palcstina., forspecial commercialreasons, was to go to Hodeida, Jidda, and Massowah first, insteadof proceeding direct to Suakim as usual. At the time no Egyptiansteamer was going in that direction, and considering that theservice provided by such steamers for Jidda and Hodeida takesno less than ten days to complete, I decided to embark on JIDDA. TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA. Our first port was Jidda, the proud possessor of the tomb of ourgreat mother Eve, for whom the inhabitants, even the Mussulmans,have a great veneration. Jidda is situated at two days journey onthe way to Mecca, and the concourse to the tomb of the ]rophet isthe chief cause of the wealtli of the city. Even on this voyageabout thirty pilgrims landed from our steamer, directing their stepstowards the object of their pilgrimage, the holy city of Mecca. On the morning of our arrival, a salute of guns greeted theGovernor, who had just returned from the tomb of the Prophet,absolved from his past extortions, with a quietand free conscience, and ready to repeat the oldgame. Passing through the Archipelago of Farsan,and leaving behind us the Island of Camaran,which was once, but is no longer, occupied bythe English, we reached Hodeida on the is an important town on account of thegreat quantities of coffee that are brough
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