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well drained and irrigated, is a source of wealth to 

 many, chiefly however not its own people. 



From Port Said I could have easily gone on to Nostalgia 

 Jaffa and Jerusalem, which I should have done but 

 for being thoroughly homesick for a sight of wife and 

 boy. In view of all that followed, however, I regret 

 never to have seen the Holy City, nor stood on the 

 banks of the Jordan. In that regard, at least, my far- 

 off progenitor, Sir William de Deandon, still holds 

 the advantage. 1 



Landing at Genoa, I hastened to Cannes for a short 

 visit with my family before leaving for the Near East. 

 During that time we spent an interesting day at the 

 island of Sainte Marguerite, where General Bazaine 

 was confined after his defeat and alleged treachery at 

 Metz, and from which he escaped by leaping over the 

 confining wall into a waiting boat while his guards, 

 apparently under orders, looked pensively in the 

 opposite direction. The castle is perhaps better 

 known, however, for having long held within its walls 

 the mysterious "Man in the Iron Mask." 



1 See Chapter XLII, page 488. 



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