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Dick gave him a direction to a seaport town to which he himself was going, to take passage for a port in South America. "Good-bye, Richard," said the Doctor. "Try to learn something from to-night's lesson."
The reason of this was, that Judaea was at that time under Roman rule, forming a portion of the Roman province of Syria and administered by a Roman official, who resided in the splendid new seaport of Caesarea, fifty miles away from Jerusalem, but had also a palace in Jerusalem, which he occasionally visited.
She was constantly deceived, sometimes robbed; for such things she had no memory. She only remembered the things which cannot be told the trembling voices of hope or returning joy the tenderness in dying eyes, the clinging of weak hands, the kindness of "her poor children." She had written without her name a book describing the condition of a great seaport town where she had once lived.
It is true that our own navy would have to be evaded in such case, but the attack might be made from points more distant from New York and at which no scouts would ever dream of looking for an enemy. The development in later months of the big heavily armed cruising machines makes the menace to any seaport city like New York still greater.
He describes the large trade of the seaport of Bhatkal on its western coast, the exports from which consisted of iron, spices, drugs, myrabolans, and the imports of horses and pearls; but as regards he last two items he says, "They now go to Goa, on account of the Portuguese." The governor of Bhatkal was a nephew of King Krishna Deva.
The growing seaport of Alexandria was a good market for a country rich in natural produce, and, above all, Egypt's marvellously good geographical position stood her in good stead in time of war. Surrounded nearly on all sides by desert land, the few inhabitants, roving Bedouins, offered no danger. The land of the Nile was accessible to an enemy in one direction only, along the coast of Syria.
As far as Keft she had sailed down the Nile with her escort, from thence she had crossed the desert by easy marches, and she had been obliged to wait a full week in the port on the Red Sea, which was chiefly inhabited by Phoenicians, for a ship which had finally brought her to the little seaport of Pharan.
"Have you no friends?" said I. He said he had a father in some English seaport, I forget which. "He was a fine man, too," he said; "but he's dead." "In heaven's name," cried I, "can you find no reputable life on shore?" "O no," says he, winking and looking very sly; "they would put me to a trade. I know a trick worth two of that, I do!"
For she was born in a Norwegian seaport which lay on a narrow strip of land between rushing falls and the open sea, and although her means were small after the death of her father, a merchant, who left his family in poverty, still she was used to life and progress.
How unlike the level old seaport town where he had passed a good part of his youth, considered his grandfather's heir, when in the turn of fortune's wheel the sturdy old Huguenot had been killed in battle and his estates confiscated. Something stirred up above him, not any small animal either. It crackled the bushes and moved about with a certain agility. Could it be a deer? He raised his gun.
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