Show NOW OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE t Port Whence Sinbad Sailed on Voyage of Trade and Adventure Has Decayed In Ia spite spate of the evidences of modern modem Industry Basra was the port from which SInbad set out on his voyages of trade and adventure Sinbad was 1 not a myth but a real man with a i I sailors sailor's love for the sights of foreign lands Louis A. A Springer writes in I Asia It must have been a n great event when he sailed away with his fleet of dhows dhows' and when he returned with treasures of ot off far-off China Chinn and the Eastern Islands The Basra of today Is a mean meaR little town in a clearing of palm trees two miles from the river and at Its port Instead of the dhows are rusty tramp steamers with tawdry wares of ot the West Farther up the valley at Kurns where the Euphrates and Tigris Join Is the traditional traditional tra tra- site of the Garden of Eden beyond are the ruins of Babylon Babylon and and andon andon on the bank of the Tigris Is the romantic romantic romantic ro ro- mantic city of ot Bagdad where Harun Harun- al the great caliph attracted the wits and the wealth of Islam and ruled In lavish splendor Down the Arabian coast are great ruins still sUll almost unexplored Lovat Fraser a close student of ot this region believe that some day It will be demonstrated that here was the scene of momentous events that determined the co course of f the human race while the shores of the Mediterranean were yet In Impenetrable darkness and that here the first dim glimmerings of civilization dawned upon the mind of primitive man |