. South of Suez. p CO u u bfl -a W n g > > te n < :2i. SOUTH OF SUEZ the direction of Jaffa, I remembered it was herethat the sick man took up his bed and I also remembered that where the salt-heaps gleamed white in the gloom, Hke the tentsof a vast, ghostly army, a young Macedoniannamed Alexander had once marched. Then Ithought of that empire upon whose dominionsthe sun never sets; and of the Frenchman, DeLesseps; and the Canal, the weakest link in theEmpire; and I dreamed that an answer wasready to the ancient query: What happenswhen an irresistible force meets an immovab
. South of Suez. p CO u u bfl -a W n g > > te n < :2i. SOUTH OF SUEZ the direction of Jaffa, I remembered it was herethat the sick man took up his bed and I also remembered that where the salt-heaps gleamed white in the gloom, Hke the tentsof a vast, ghostly army, a young Macedoniannamed Alexander had once marched. Then Ithought of that empire upon whose dominionsthe sun never sets; and of the Frenchman, DeLesseps; and the Canal, the weakest link in theEmpire; and I dreamed that an answer wasready to the ancient query: What happenswhen an irresistible force meets an immovablebody? The ship did not move till daylight. Therewas much to be done. The bunkers werecrammed with coal; cargo was discharged; thenaval gun was lifted from the stern; freshvegetables were taken aboard for barren Aden,cut off from the mainland by the Turks; and thepilot-house was banked with sandbags. As the white sun rose out of Asia, I steppedout of my cabin in kimono and sandals andlooked across the first sweep of Arabian had already left Port Sa
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