IN THE EAST INDIES. 35 
large photographs, for six cents each, of the canal, 
ete., from a boatman who came alongside. We spent 
about an hour here and then started down the Red 
sea which is here about twenty miles wide. The pen- 
insula of Sinai is on one side and Africa on the other. 
The shores are composed of desert cliffs a thousand 
feet and more high of perfectly bare clay with sand 
dunes about them; as the sun shines on them they 
show wonderful colors. Rosamond enjoys watching 
the schools of flying fish rise near the bow. It is so 
calm that even I enjoy it. Between Crete and Port 
Said I did not enjoy it, but Ros. was not sick, only felt 
a bit stirred about. Yesterday in Port Said harbor a 
very large dolphin or porpoise came and scratched 
himself twice against the side of this ship. We could 
see it just as if it had been in an aquarium. It lay 
still for a second and a suckingfish, which was fast to 
him, let go and began to swim about. The old dolphin 
just turned a somersault and caught the fish. I could 
see the whites of the dolphin’s eyes, we were so near. 
The weather is perfect, cool in the shade and a fine 
hight head breeze. 
There are numerous English people on board 
simply worrying themselves into profuse perspiration 
by violent fanning to keep cool in a heat which does 
not exist. We are very unfavorably impressed with 
the traveling English. This boat has a large number 
of Sirs and Lords bound for India and Australia; 
they are chronic grumblers about everything, from 
the weather, which is perfect, to the food, which is 
wonderful, considering where we are. If you leave 
your own deck chair some important personage 
plumps himself down into it and is insulted when you 
