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I was not the only passenger aboard the S.S. Mandalay who perceived the disturbance and wondered what it might portend and from whence proceed. A goodly number of passengers were joining the ship at Port Said. I was lounging against the rail, pipe in mouth, lazily wondering, with a large vagueness. What a heterogeneous rabble it was -a brightly coloured rabble, but the colours all were dirty, like the town and the canal. Only the sky was clean; the sky and the hard, merciless sunlight which spared nothing of the uncleanness, and defied one even to think of the term dear to tourists, "picturesque." I was in that kind of mood. All the natives appeared to be pockmarked; all the Europeans greasy with perspiration. But what was the stir about?
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- ISBN-13: 9781515078203
- ISBN-10: 1515078205
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: July 2015
- Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.31 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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