Show NOW OF LITTLE importance port whence sinbad sailed on voyage of trade and adventure has decayed in spite of the evidences of modern industry basra was tile the port from which sinbad set out on his voyages of trade and adventure sinbad was not a myth hut but a real man with a sailors love for the sights of foreign lands louis A springer writes ln lol asia it must have been a great event when lie sailed awny away with ills fleet of debows and when lie he returned with treasures of far off china and the eastern islands the basra of today Is a mpa little town in a clearing of palm palin trees anes two miles from the river and at its port instead of the In deneL dhols dhows are rusty tramp steamers with tawdry vares mares of the west farther forthe a r up the valley valey at burna where the anti and tigris join Is tile the traditional dit ional site of the garden of eden beyond are the rulus ruins of babylon and on the bank of the tigris Is the romantic city of bagdad where harun al ai rashid ra bild lild the great caliph attracted the wits and the wealth of islam and ruled in lavish splendor down the arabian coast are great ruins still almost unexplored lovat fraser a close student of this region believes believer that some day it will he be demonstrated that here was the scene of momentous covents that determined the course of the human race while the of ohp mediterranean were yet in ili impenetrable darkness and that liae lie re the farst dim glimmerings glimme rings of civilization dawned upon the mind of primitive man |