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Sa. 1 No. 6
No.10
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Kowloon. Dep. 6,40 6.05
Taumsti.Dep. 849
Shatin...Dep.
Taipa Dop. 7,15
Taipo
Market.Dep.
Fanling
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shui Dep. 735
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9.6 10.87 19.471,5 10.10 10,47 13,87 302
3.90) 4,80 5,40| 7.35
4.59 5,48 7.43
| 4,50 8,00 7.53
-6.04 0.18 8.08
4.096,178.19
5.18 8.27 8.29
9.07 10.35 10.59 102 2.073.09
5.28 3.39 8.25
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STRONGHOLD OF DESERT ROMANCE.
HOUSE-TOP LEGENDS OF THE VANISHING HAREMS.
ARABIAN, KNIGHTS, ORANGE BLOSSOMS, AND VEILED LADIES.
WHERE THE CAMEL CARAVAN STILL HOLDS SWAY.
"I love mystery,
a famous painter once said. That's why I Eke veils."
To tell the truth, writes a Daily Express spegial correspondent, there is very little Eastern mystery or romance left in the Republic of Turkey. The veil has gone, the harem has gone, religion is dead or dying. But elsewhere the un Larrying East remains truer to type
and tradition.
Complicated Reinationships.
Africa is stiil the home of the eamel caravan. I never realised till that moment
From the burning sands of the Sahara and the Sudan how
complicated Moslem family to Arabia Deserta, from Aleppo to Life
become. could
Unlimited
Algiers and Timgad to Timbuctoo, harems must be as trying as 12- where there 250 limited holidays. While Cloe was petro puraps, bleached bones in palm trees not supplying the women with their stead of signposts, the black tents chief excitement in lifean unex of the,, Bedouia beckon, and came! pected call-we ascended to the bells tinkle an invitation. roof Theace we climbed a wooden ladder to a still higher one..
True, the desert, last strong- hold of mystery and romance, is In Damascus the women walk From this vantage point one abroad discreetly, like veiled nuns could appreciate the strategic adrapidly being conquered by the car mostly in black, some in white, a vantage of possessing the highest rian railway. The tourist can now and by the projected Trans-Saha- few in gay saris, though they are roof, overlooking and not overlook. not above peeping or throwing backed. To this day there are dark travel in upholstered comfort to their veils when their menfolk are eyed houris who throw their Biskra, gate of the desert, Toug- abacat and curiosity is present, screams and their slippere, indis- pult with its 170,000 palms, Duar. Here a donkey and there a car are criminately, at any strange voice gia lost in immensity, and even on bravely decked with blue bends to from the roof-tops, cat burglars now occnsions to far distant Timbuctoo.)
But the camel can go a week with- ward off the evil eye, oranges are excepted, and noe betide the un-
put any food, and even a "baby" so hig they must suffer from grow. wary interloper who is caught tres- ing pains, and the roof-tops are passing.
Austin cannot run without petrol: flat, airy, and, inviting. Flarems
and a camel can find the hidden and house tops Two of the pillars
well where a car pants itself to an of Moslem life.
abandoned standstill.
As is the lawn to the English garden, so is the house-top to the Oriental. It is his citadel, his pri vato recreation ground, and his back garden all rolled into one. Here hangs the washing, here when the narrow streets grow impossibly hot and dusty he can sit, saunter. wap, or sleep to his heart's and his
harem'a conten.
By way of making conversation.. 1. informed the sheik that
our with dat roofs owing to an incle houses in England were not blessed ment climate. "I will tell you & little story," he repiled. illus trating what good friends our roofs
can prove.
Sunset and the Golden Road.
And ever the far horizon heckons, and the golden road stretches southward to those, ultimate places
face to face with awe. desolation, fee and fail, and where man is where things common and trivial
immensity, destiny and with himself. Heaven and hell meet in the desert, and the tourist taes to Every
photograph them.
that was famed for the beauty and "There was once a certain town charm of its women, so, much so that it called down upon itself the unwelcome attentions of the cruel Tired-Looking Dwellings.
chieftain of that country. The wide open spaces can uplift inonth his followers would arrive and soothe him; and what could and shout: Wives! Wives] for be more romantic than spreading the King, leading away with them out a prayer rug at sunset, when the fairest and rurest. Allah, throws his roses in the sky. Moreover, consider how tired-look- ing are many Eastern dwellings, and then think how preferable it would be to fall on top" of your house, rather than to have it fall on you.
Cloc and I rapped laud and long at the door of the Sherk Abdullah, The afternoon had been hot, so we suspected him of sleeping, and we were told that harems must have warning of the approach of visitors, For they might be surprised in un-
suitably scanty `attire.
A Terrified Town. "The terrised town dared not resist its destiny. But one day a wandering dervish recommended the men to flatten all their rosis, and send their wives up there, out of sight. When the chieftain's fol lowers arrived the next month and cried: Wives! Wives for the King,' he replied that none were left-only house-tops
some
cats apon the
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To this day they sacrifice to it in mid-August. Instead of a living bride they offer up a gaily "decked egy, and there are feasting and revelry by night. But should the nilometer at Cairo fail to register ten feet of rise, famine fellows in the land and all taxation,ceased ! "After this had happened twice Sunset is the magic moment for the chieftain, whom Allah had the great river. Take a dahabieh, afflicted with a slight deafness, or better still, a felucea, with a aaddled his best camel and came hawk-wing sail, and slip into the to investigate the strange story, dusk. Two Nubians, black as the When they saw him entering their night. with bright dental grins, town in person the women started may row you; later, they may pre- weeping and wailing and filling the tend to leave the heat or make air with their tears. So much so sinister gestures with knives until, that the chieftain said to his men: you promise increased payment.
This place is clearly bewitched. The roofs are haunted with eats in- namérable, and Wullah look how it rains from a clear sky. Where
pon he went his way, and that Turkish cigar-city was left in peace." and he intimated withi Which, of course, explains why dignity that his hareem," is roofs are flat and cats are so un- punt, his two sisters, and his three ponular with harems. mothers-in-law would be honoured by a visit from Cloe.
A small boy with a big fez led us into a wee, walled garden. Here we found the Arabian Knight sit ting on a long, three aided divan, in front him his heard, his foun tain and his orange trees. ...
After accepting roasted coffee and exchanging compliments, we moved into his bedroom, a cool, white- washed affair circled by an assort. ment of chairs, varied and numer. our enough to suit and seat all his relatives.
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St. Alban.
But their coal black mammic has evidently brought them up hadly. and at any rate do not they call themselves sons of sheiks. Laden kyasses float past, their boatmen chanting barbarically.. Civilisation fades away as fast as the daylight. It is Cheops and Cleopatra, not Topsy and Evo, not even you or 1. England is becoming a country who are still the people who count of cross-roads and cars, but North | on old Nile. ・・
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