Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 11
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veils at all. It ought to have been the other way about. My bad luck. From the Crater we went to the salt pans. There are quaint windmills here & huge piles of salt as big as houses. Right on the sea shore I struck a couple of Englishmen playing golf (There's no accounting for taste). Then 8 miles out we struck Sheikh Othman. This has to be seen to be appreciated. It is the untamed East in all its glory. All sorts & conditions of Arabs were there in thousands. Very few women (only the very old or the very very young) were seen. The men sat & smoked, the youngsters played ball. Water carriers with goat-skin bag sauntered about. Fruits & other viands were exposed for sale. Camels slouched by with packs of merchandise or forage or fuel &c &c. The only sign of the authority of the Occident & old England were the Khaki clad native police with red fez and solid baton. Guess this will tire you. We bolted back to the