The Days of a Man 1:1914 



National Thcsc wcnt ill at first without forethought, taking 



fstic7*'^ things as they came, according to their habit; their 



opponents prepared themselves very carefully as to 



shoes and especially as to the position of each man in 



the line and so won the first round easily. The 



British then took pains to make themselves ready and 



as easily won in the end. Anderson thought this 



incident might be internationally prophetic. 



Perhaps it was ! 



A water- One night on the Indian Ocean, about midway be- 



■f?°«« tween Ceylon and Aden, we ran into a waterspout 



accompanied by a violent wind blowing one way in 



the fore part of the ship and in the opposite direction 



aft, meanwhile deluging the decks with water. This 



event I recorded in the following lines of doggerel : 



Three times round went our gallant, gallant ship, 



Three times round went she; 



If it hadn't up and stopped, 



We would all have up and dropped 



From the top to the bottom of the sea. 



At Suez the passengers all deserted the boat in 

 order to spend two days at Cairo and rejoin it at Port 

 Said. Of this very interesting detour into a much- 

 traveled region I need say but little. But I well re- 

 member the unfriendly gaze of a big camel on the 

 banks of the Nile, who thought that I was proposing 

 At the to ride him ! I recollect, too, the unctuous glibness of 

 Pyramids ^ dignified Egyptian who thoughtfully guided my 

 burro past the Pyramids and bade me pause before 

 the Sphinx while we had our pictures taken — the 

 Sphinx, the burro, himself, and myself. Concerning 

 the historic city of Cairo, replete with interest, noth- 

 ing new remains to be said. The fertile Delta, now 



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