Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 19
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go on to Aden. A favoured few including yours truly went ashore. We had a wildly interesting day amongst the Arabs & Somalis & the camels & the donkeys. I have already sent you a story of that day ashore; to 'King Solomon's Tanks', Cains grave, the Arab city at Sheikh Othman and the dinner given by the governor to a favoured few - again including yours truly. It was an entirely novel & interesting experience. Maybe you have heard by this that a number of the Australians swam ashore & got ashore in various ways at Colombo & just painted the town red. We of the Light horse would never think of such a thing. Oh no.
The name of Babelmandeb to me has always been as blessed a word as Mesopotamia. It just reeks with romance. I'm sure Sinbad the sailor must have made many voyages round here. The palm clad isle of Minekoy [Minecoy] & the jagged peaks of Socotra were nothing to the sound