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in fact, to be a continuous passage of Bedouins who make Tor 

 their market up and down the wadi to the convent and other 

 resorts of the Arabs on the mountains. We had a splendid 

 view of Jebel es-Shomar, the highest mountain of the Sinai 

 range, towards the west. Tamarisks abound in this wadi, and 

 we often came to pahns and dense thickets of reeds fifteen to 

 twenty feet liigh, and frequently to a running stream of water 

 a few inches wide, which disappeared again in the sand almost 

 immediately. Towards evening we suddenly emerged from the 

 mountain gorge and found our camp pitched on the desert 

 plain. The next morning I made the six hours' ride across the 

 desert of Tor in five hours and three-quarters. The plain 

 descends gradually all the way, and as we proceeded we could 

 make out with increasing plainness the Gulf of Suez, then Tor 

 itself, and then the harbour. 



A little after noon on Thursday I reached the Greek 

 monastery at Tor, where a monk courteously received me, and I 

 liad lunch in the guest chamber. Mackinnon spent some hours 

 on a shooting expedition in search of gazelles and ibex. On 

 Friday afternoon (March 22nd) the steamer for Suez arrived, 

 and as we made our way north we greatly enjoyed the lovely 

 sunset effects on the Sinai mountains. On Saturday morning 

 we anchored off tlie port, and while Mackinnon stayed the night 

 at Suez in order to go straight to Beyrout, 1 took train to Cairo, 

 and fulfilled an engagement to lecture at the Y.W.C.A., on my 

 travels in Palestine. 



At the close of the lecture the Peesident proposed, and 

 Professor Hull seconded, a hearty vote of thanks to the Lecturer, 

 who replied. 



General Halliday proposed, and Mr. Sutton seconded, a vote 

 of thanks to the Chair, and the meeting separated. 



