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HONG KONG HOTEL. and T-man said that it was the trunk Mr. Allena MrA Shelton Hooper to which our padilla camer was Sir I. L. Atkinson MFH Howard

Mr G. E.Anderson Mr and Mrs. Howard SOME BIBLICAL LANDMARKS-moored and auch was the general Mr H. Murry Bain Mr E. 11. Joseph

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opinion. But this tree was a "Niris Mr D. Barandse Mr R. M. Joseph, with yellow bean pods, and I learned, Ale J. H. Haring Mrs D. Kader (FROM: EDMUND CANDLER] too, that a guarled and thorny bush Mr W. L. L. Barker Mr C King but in within 350 miles of the from seductive, it is true bat it might Mrs E Kurna It is the oldest country in the down stream was a kind of prickly Mr and Mrs S. W. Mr and Mrs M, F. world, but you will find little or nothing plan, with a telegraph pole in it. This, Mfr and Sirs H. A. Dr A. Knodurer

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Baxter and child Mr&Mrs C Laurit

R Belitics sen Chaldeans bas left sama percaptible

Mr W. J. Lees undulations in the mud. Up the Tigris, not what it was. We inquired of the Mr RJ. Birbesz DJ Bell

Mr K. Of Liang the Arch of Ctesiphon is the only mon people, but found local tradition con-Capt. and Mrs R. D.Mr and Mrs. W. M.

fused or indifferent.

Black &3 children Loftus mant of antiquity that stands." Ezra'a

We explored the streets up to Ribe Camp Lt. J. M Lopes

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Mr S. Longfeld Tomb is not really Ezra's Tomb and the Garden of Eden, if there is any truth road, Eve's walk leads into Charing

Mr S. Lord Cross and Serpent's alley, of course, Capt L Cassol in legand, is changed beyond recogni-into Temptation square, a small inset in MP.& Crawley tion. Five of us, a Padre, a doctor, s

Major D. Macdonald

W. Mackcan "Mina M Mackenzie regimental officer, & supply and trasathe houses by the quay where half a Mr. Champl

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canned pineapple, Aden cigarettes, Miss greater part of the last week in June.

Meirwin and Feb. 1. We were all bound for Nasiriyeh on the canned salmon, and the like, which Me G..

Courtney

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the unhealthy process of Me J. Courtney Mr D. Me, Murray tantly, afterwards with little hope, for;

3. Merecki a problematical General, in whoac etias our first parents. The little market and Mrs F. T.Mr J. ence we had ceased to believe.. 1.

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EF: MrJ.5. Nicolson Davis Paradise, Res at the junction of the Tigris and the old channel of the Arab to squat, when one adhesive mem- Miss M Dorr Euphrates. The new channel flows into with his feet dangling apathetically a ber, abjuring the other, be kita on high

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A high authority ea umani The palm tree and the fig leaf were affairs, who has spent much time in that the only paradisical things we found in country and in this, since the outbreak Eden. Even the serpent was invisible, of the war with Germany, and who has though his works remain and the been in close touch with Taman kaowledge of evil thrives preposterous developments daring the whole period ly. Man is still chastised in this spot, of the war, made the following state. and we had reason to be thankful that the ment to a representasive longest day was followed by the shortest Manning Post "on the 28th August. night. Our pyjamas began to sweat, Rumania is prepared for war. She has before we put them on. They were wet, an army of 800,000 men trained and not with dew, but with the perspiration equipped and ready to go into the feld of the night, the exudations of the palm today. Behind these we have reserves Mr W. J. Hodge groves. We neither slept, nor were we numbering 300,000. This great army Mrs E thoroughly awake. We flung open our may surprise many people, as I notice Mr mosquito curtains and threw of our that there is a general impression that pyjama jackets, for the air seemed too half a million men would represent the Mr H. E. Hollands herry for insects. But the hour of the maximum strength of the forces Mr G. Holman Kindly was only postponed. They that Rumania could put into the Mr & Ma B. Henig came towards midnight, and perished in field, but it should be. remembered that Miss, A. Honig our sweat like flies in marmalade. We the country has been more or less pulled down our nets and prayed for prepared for war ever since 1913, and

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Mr & Mrs E. Ralphs away the next. The great argument classes of 1917-18 would place oue always a for Providence is

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Smith when the menacing hand is removed, April. With the lapse of four months that we should be chastened, but not forecast might have led oac to expect..r Denman Faller Bir & Mrs L. Grant and we remembered that it is God's will the position is even better than that

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