. South of Suez. were started by traders, mostlyAmerican. . Well, why dont you go in for planting? There he had me. I looked from the balcony out across the bay,at the monitor squatting in the roads, at a blackEUerman freighter unloading into red barges,at a plume of smoke on the horizon, at the cloudsbanked low over the African mainland. I wasparticularly fascinated by that bank of distantclouds. The rumbling of the vessels and the dinof the bazaar rose to my ears, filling them witha dull buzzing, while I seemed to smell the headysmell of a ships hold. . Suddenly I knewthat in another month t
. South of Suez. were started by traders, mostlyAmerican. . Well, why dont you go in for planting? There he had me. I looked from the balcony out across the bay,at the monitor squatting in the roads, at a blackEUerman freighter unloading into red barges,at a plume of smoke on the horizon, at the cloudsbanked low over the African mainland. I wasparticularly fascinated by that bank of distantclouds. The rumbling of the vessels and the dinof the bazaar rose to my ears, filling them witha dull buzzing, while I seemed to smell the headysmell of a ships hold. . Suddenly I knewthat in another month this island would be buta memory. . Ah, well, the island is yours, I said. Thereare other things for me to do; and after all I [187] SOUTH OF SUEZ am somewhat of a visitor. ... I have seen it;I know it pretty well; and I like it. But . .toujours there is something else to be done the open road and a free heel; tou-jours a flowing sheet, and the long slope of theseas. • • • [188].
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