Show clial arabia Is like thanks to those tivo works ca called lied manuals of geography nod and the valuable information of 0 carious various worthy folks who have never seen any desert but coney island we all knoy pretty well by this llna time tim what arabia ought to bo be like A dreary e i y unending level of burning earitt Bandt asta r fully decorated with human akola 0 toua tone and mile storied with solitary palm treas thirty leagues apart each overhanging overhang a limpid well what over ever that may be while binds banda of dusky robbers mounted on horses possessing tho the singular property of always going at full fall gallop and never needing to be ba fed scurry over the pathless waste in in a style of clothing repulsive to every right principled principled mind living comfortably w where ore there is B nothing to eat and am amassing asala i I 1 ri rich ch a spoil oi I 1 where there is is no DO one to rob rob bat at these well ascertained facts are rudely shaken when confronted with arabia as aa it is la which does not agree by any means with arabia as it ought to bo be the sees with amazement arabian moun moua bains several thousands feet light bight arabian valleys as green and beaul beamut ticul as the charming little glens that lurk amid the black lava ridges of iceland arabian fortresses maud armed with european cannon arabian doffee plantations worthy of the choicest districts of java and brazil indeed the whole northern slope of the iba coffee mountains of yemen is la still as is rich and productive oven even after centuries of turkish misrule as in il ti te far off od lays days when Rocha was the chief outlet of southern arabia little dreaming that it should one ona day be as magnificently useless as a london footman or the head bond steward of an ocean steamer vail mail and express |