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Yet am I his friend? Permit me to be candid, Miss Leslie. I'm in a deuce of a quandary. On the trip up to Aden, you'll remember, I told you something of the way he and I had knocked about together." "Yes. Frankly, it added not a little to my esteem for you that you had learned to value his sterling worth." "I did not tell you how it started.
I might have told her then that the 'Porcupine' was in the harbour at Aden, but I felt that things would work out to due ends without my help which, indeed, they began to do immediately.
Besides the little antelope described, I only saw the Saltiana antelope, and the tracks of two other species which were said to be very scarce. Amongst the bush and trees there were several gum-producing ones, of which the frankincense, I think, ranked first. These gums are usually plucked by the women and transported to Aden.
What an anomaly a modern steamship packed with western civilisation reeling off twenty knots an hour past a desert land of lawless nomadic Arab tribes. As we get south nearer Aden the sand spits tail out south and slope off inland like wide glaciers, through which appear dark coloured rocky islets.
At Zayla these articles are double the Aden value, which would be about thirteen rupees or twenty-six shillings; in the bush the price is quadrupled. Before leaving us the Abban received at least double the original hire.
"A learned biblical scholar of the last century, who studied Oriental history in connection with the sacred record, identifies Aden as the Eden mentioned by Ezekiel in describing the wealth of Tyrus," continued the commander. "But who was Tyrus, Captain?" asked Mrs. Blossom, who was wide awake when any scriptural name was used. "He wasn't anybody, Mrs.
Then they went back to breakfast, which they did not find an altogether cheerful meal. As they were finishing, Mr. Wallace returned from the town. "I have got good news," he said; "the British India mail will be here in two days, so I shall pay off my men and go up to Aden in her, and thence home. Of course you will come too, for, like me, I expect you have had enough of Africa for the present.
The guns and ammunition were saved, for they were the captain's private venture, and he had stored them between decks. The bottom of the bark was pounded and ground off, and the cargo in the hold was a total loss; but an English steamer had taken off the ship's company and the naval goods, and carried them to Aden.
"If I took c'rect bearin's, accordin' to your yarn the cargo is planted some distance from the coast?" "About forty miles." "An', while some of us goes after it, the yacht will stand off, an' on, waitin' orders, an' mebbe runnin' to Perim or Aden for letters." "You have grasped the situation, exactly, Captain Stump." The skipper shifted his cigar from one corner of his mouth to another.
At midnight a steamer left Zaila for Aden with the glad news, and twenty-four hours later the streets of London were blocked with crowds of people reading the amazing telegram that the newspapers had posted on their bulletin boards.
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