| Show NOW OF LITTLE importance port whence sinbad sailed on voyage of trade and adventure has decayed in sp te of the evidences of modern industry basra was the port from which sinbad set out on his voyages of trade and adventure sinbad was not a myth but a real man with a sailors loe for the sights of foreign innas louis A springer writes in asia it must have been a great event when he sailed away with his fleehr of ellios and when he returned with tre of far ofa china and the fadem islands the basra of today t a mean little town in a clearing of pilm trees two miles from the river anil at its port instead of the chos are rusty tramp steamers with wares of the est farther up the valley at burna where the euphrates and tigris join Is the traditional dit ional ite of the garden of eden beyond anre the ruins of babylon and on the bank of the tigris Is alie ro mantle city of bagdad where aa the great caliph attracted th alts and the wealth of islam end ruled in lavish splendor down the arabian coast are great ruins still almost unexplored loat braser a cloe student of athla region believes that some day it will be demonstrated that here was the scene of momentous events that determined the course of the human race while the shores of the mediterranean were yet in impenetrable darkness and that here the first dim glimmerings glimme rings of civilization dawned upon the mind of primitive man |
