pictures in UStories From the Bible'' that one reed so long ago. We 
drove until long past twilight through these familiar and ancient 
scenes* Then, at dark, cut across the desert again, and after two 
hours of exceedingly rough road, with sand in one 1 s eyes, but the 
desert stars overhead, came to Ismailiah, on the Canal, where we stopped 
for a bit of refreshment . 
The road from Ismailiah on is good, an asphalt drive beside the 
Canal, where we saw the big steamers coming through, each one with 
a blinding headlight, that illumines not only the Canal but a hundred 
yards of desert each side. At nine o f clock we passed Ka.nts.re., where 
the night train for Jerusalem stood, lighted, and ready for fcix its 
rim. Shortly afterward we passed the Silverash. We blew our horn, 
turned on the lights in the car, and waved, but hardly expected that 
anyone on board would notice us. The Crptain misses little however, 
and gave us one short toot of recognition. 
Into Port Said about ten, and a first stop at Simon #rtz, 
which has grown from the little Oriental store that Bill remembered, in 
to a big, modern Department store. We each wanted a felt hat to 
land in, and made our selections quickly. Then Ph&rl /bdallah took 
us to a not very choice Greek restaurant, where we had food and drinks 
to kill the time until we could get aboard the Silverash. 
About one 1 clock we actually came up the steep and tilted 
gangway # The Captain 1 s room was full of police, and the two ring- 
leaders of the ''mutiny." There has been trouble among the crew 
ever since Port Sudan. The Captain put one of the men in shackles, 
whereupon the whole crew refused to work. He was determined to get 
rid of two of them to-night, but the police said they had no authority 
to take sailors off the ship. So they were put in the ship's brig, 
and will be attended to to-morrow. 
September 6 - 
We went ashore about eight o'clock, called on the Consul, 
found a. small bird store where we bought six lizards, and rambled 
about the streets, being amused by the f ortune-teller s, shoe-shiners, 
coffee-purveyors, sellers of pearls, and the general air of the toym. 
We smoked Amabr cigarettes and bought lotus perfume in one little 
shop, end Bill fell for a Rolex watch at Simon Pvtz, principally 
I think because a running watch was kept in an aquarium of goldfish. 
When we came back to the office to see about getting f lsunch 
for the Silverash, Captain Rowe was there, End simply furious becpuse 
he hed been able to do so little about his mutineers. The British 
Consul had told hire he should be more discreet, and that his (the 
Consul's) job was to protect Chinese working under the British flpg 
rather thpn jail them. The Captain finally went to the police himself 
end said he wanted them b go out and get the two s?ilors and put them 
in jail - which wps eventually done. 
Bill end I had a set-to with the ship's chandler, who charged 
us too much for exchange, after putting ?n awful price on food anyway, 
and sold us rotten bananas, dead quail when we had ordered live ones, 
and left us with tears, insisting we had gypped him sfter all the 
hrrd work he had done on our behrlf . 
