Item 01: Oliver Hogue letters, November 1914-29 December 1915 - Page 20
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of Babelmandeb in my ears. So when we glided through the straight of Babelmandeb I know we were in the Seas of Romance.
"Put me somewhere East of Suez,
Where the best is like the worst;
Where there aint no ten commandments
And a man can raise a thirst".
But it was all best with us. The worst was a little warm weather. The Chaplain daily reminded us that the decalogue still held good. The main thing with which to assuage the Red Sea heat & thirst was lime juice. (Though let me whisper it, on a couple of historic occasions we did splash out on Fizz.)
But the Red Sea is (so far as we knew it) a much maligned waterway. it was warm in the South, temperate in the centre & cold at nights in the north. Near the Sinai Peninsular it was chilly except at midday. We saw the identical mountain where Moses did his historic interview & the children of Israel ran riot.