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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph by Sir Ro>s Smith 



THE PERSIAN GOVKRNOR, BRi'f ISTI CONSUL, AND A CONCOURSE OP NATIVES WELCOMED 

 THE AVIATORS AT BANDER ABBAS, PERSIA (SEE PAGE 295) 



To reach Bander Abbas from Basra necessitated a non-stop flight of 650 miles down 

 the Persian Gnlf along a route that provided no opportunity for a safe landing in the event 

 one of the motors had failed. 



by a patchwork of densely- cultivated and 

 irrigated lands; beyond, arid barrenness, 

 sand, and nothing. 



( )n the canal the great white lateen 

 sails of dhows and feluccas in large num- 

 ber resembled a model yacht regatta. It 

 was all very beautiful and wonderful. 

 Northward the waterways, canals, and 

 lakes of the Nile delta stood out like 

 silver threads woven around the margins 

 of patches in a patch-quilt, for the sun 



had now burst through the clouds, and 

 ah the world sprang into life and light. 

 From aloft, without the sun, the world 

 is a gloomy-looking place, doleful and 

 dead. 



Over the famous old battlefield of 

 1882— Tel-el-Kebir— where Arabi Pasha 

 suffered ignominiously by the valor of 

 British arms, even now there is a camp 

 of British and Indian cavalry. 



And soon to Ismailia and the canal that 



