Show i p 1 ho 8 lofft 1 4 I 1 li e I 1 z li L i i aa TIT 04 6 4 n ay vill t ZIP 0 aw el W 4 0 IF tt I 1 14 A 0 r ra ra 4 on the shores of the persian gulf Is a bit of seashore of of xich such vital importance to our world today that thitherward Is directed the anxious guzo gaze of all tho the lenders of the nations it figures prominently as is one of the questions involved in the great war Is ala teril tory of tin an important campaign and was in tact fact ono one of the prime factors in the causation of the war it ling hns been a region of high importance since the first morning of our civilization rich alike in III history and fable probably the cradle of western culture the playground of ninny many empires gono gone and perhaps of others yta yet to conie come chope whoso undulating sands and hills bills hold the ruins of sixty centuries it Is a haunt of drains ans and infinite fascination a latitude which can apy most plausible claim to the conedera tion of all of us and yet in our time of knowledge ledge these coast lands famous tor for ages anre scarcely known know nd more probably than lhnn they were to the curious greeks of herodotus time or to the Chal ilenna who studied the stars and the sea a dozen centuries earlier assuredly no more inore than they were to the geographers of bagdad or the merchants of isfahan in the drys of the good ila iia roun nl at Rasch ld writes buranelli in the new york world ho persian gulf lies brooding with the ages around its ancient waters are set at the luster juster shorn crown jewels of islam islain it Is a solitude of obscure wonders awaiting exploration the persian gulf Is a landlocked body of water of oblong shape lying between arabia and persia it la Is about five hundred miles mile long by an average of two hundred miles wide extending from northwest to southeast its outlet to the indian ocean the straits of to Is less than three hundred in miles lies from the outpost frontier of india po that a power controlling the gulf say by holding a fortress at the tip tap of the pirate const coast the arabian side of the narrow strait would have an immediate sally port tor for excursions against the empire of the east indeed with proper rall railroad road facilities in asiatic turkey the persian gulf becomes the logical route to india so ko it Is not astonishing that flint when the heavy spectacles of german scholarship n r ship formed an al alliance linnee with kalser kaiser itch the idea of the north sea pea to t gulf ang railroad cropped up immediately and showed extreme pertinacity tina city the center of equi equilibrium libri ill lit in the orient lies iles in the control of t the to persian gulf I 1 As in the days of the prophet to one side Is persia to the other arabela with crumbled babylon look 1 ing down froin the noeth where t it fairer setting for the romancer along the low sandy and forbidding west j shore lie ito the provi provinces aces of el ilasa and I 1 anian the latter with that precious j territory known no as the pirate want coast here the various touches of modern culture alture are perfectly the aral holds forth much as he did when the prophet was mas raising the first rue rud ions eions of the Isla qt orni and the arab la Is a poison person of wide ido tint and deserved deceived reputation on this coast lie ho is spen seen lit in his anost guises and I 1 ilso also I 1 in roles comparatively unknown t tal tho the outside world com camels s sand and the de desert ert are arc clr e usual settings hitting for the burno used f follower ower of the prophet hut but on the persian gulf coast tho arab lias has become tin an expert sailor and pirate ile he follows both of these ortha avocations with gli all tho ho guile traditional of its breed and anda often it is 19 gulle quite fan to the ocel dental mind the co const nat ling hak lout Iong been a refugo for outlawed ed churn eters front from westeen w stern europe Iu ropp thoy pa take lake readily in th i robberies rol herles and princles plin cles of the na catl timor which lit in salte of english gunboats gun boata boats nourish flourish alio trading anil and gun dunnink ure are probes belons and thu tho warr warriors Jors of cantral asia tire lire enabled cna lIed to inalee largo large amounts amounts ot of trouble thanks to the rifles rides pinked cal in their hands by these hardy rascals ot of the gulf littoral all along the sandy waste llo ile treasure stores of ruins travelers ha arno ve described half burled stone formations the relics of ronn inan lung before the early civilization of the region there la Is a I 1 blance to tho stone iia niad and other aern premilas dus of prehistoric man in europe southern arabia holds the remains of what seems a very early and quite unknown civilization E may idd add a new and revolutionary page to tho the history of culture large parts of arabia have never been explored explore dby by the outsider some not even by the arabs arab themselves viii it would seem the natives will M that certain sections are impassable le some of this may bo be taken with n trifle of reserve rea erve for wily desert merchants have been known to spread horrifying reports as to tho the fatal characteristics of this section or that that chevery th the every very air Is poisoned thereby frightening te tiling away thieving tradesmen from the right of way of well laden caravans land of romance and ruin tho the persian side shows a rugged beach formation with bristling cliffs and rocks there ile he and basra froni from this latter a historical character sailed balled on his nevert never nevar t toi bp be forgotten voyages ages to uie the lutary lo lu kolafa tArl LafA 01 llo lie had and Is of po poetics ettel 1 romantic glory it Is u land ns its st as araby itself take the punishment of slaves when a slave has misbehaved h himself seriously enough ho he Is punished by being freed and left to earli carp his own living which virtually consigns him filin io fo a Hil hilmering gerIng death across the straits of opposite the tip of the pirate coast la Is the tha once great trading city of now a ruin showing allowing evidences of vanished magnificence western travelers who ho visited the city in the days of its splendor five hundred years ago used ex trava gant language in describing the alth and luxury which prevailed but after undergoing spectacular ups and downs finally decayed and tell fell into dust dusi and Is now an object for the philosophic rumina eions of the tourist a 0 cadaver for the dissecting picks and shovels of tho the arche archaeologist archeologist there are few ports on this rough coast and the interior Is harried by robbers and fractious tribesmen there are sites and cities untouched by the ravages of tourists although they have been drummed dru mined into the head of the western world by tho the great persian Pers liin poets in their latter day occidental vogue at the narrow northern shore of the Pel gulf lies iles the ancient land of the Chal deans it Is hero here that the sto aled rivers the and the tigris untie unite and flow into the gulf on the tigris la Is bagdad the city of the arabian Arabia tf nights the ruins of babylon are near tile the euphrates tile rivers run almost lel on every side on tile sands or more often beneath the them W are the decided decayed rein remnants nants of days which stir the imagination of the file dullest dul leAt I 1 persia chaldea chalan arabia nil all clustered about the gulf and the he tourist found them not bof |