SIXTH LETTER 



J| BEGIN this letter at Suez. We have had a most 

 r delightful voyage 8,316 miles from Melbourne 

 here, and not one hour of bad weather all the way. 

 The officers of the Massilia say they have never had 

 such a voyage as this before. We had expected 

 considerable heat before reaching Suez; in this, 

 however, we have been agreeably disappointed. From 

 Perim Island, at the southern entrance to Suez at the 

 extreme north, the length of the Red Sea is 1,230 

 miles. The navigation of this sea is attended with 

 very great danger, apparently, from the number of 

 wrecks on islands, shoals and sunken rocks all the 

 way up. It is, I believe, especially dangerous for 

 sailing vessels. 



Since noon to-day (Friday, 27th) we have been in 

 the Gulf of Suez, and that has enabled us to view all 

 along the southern coast of the Sinai Peninsula. 

 Although the day is a little too hazy for us to make 

 out the mountains separately, yet the group so 

 honored of God is distinctly visible a few miles back 

 from the coast. It would be a strange Christian 



