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spoilt child that has had a spanking. His companion unwound his turban and wound it on again, he would have tore his hair I suppose only he couldn't spare any. He stamped with rage, and I suppose he called on the prophet. We were enjoying the scene when some paltry mean cow went and turned the hose on, and it must have spoilt a lot of postcards. Why are there such mean ones to spoil a good joke, for spoiling the postcards did no-one any good, and we were getting a few oranges cheap, and having a little harmless fun into the bargain. True, they took us down, but it was with our eyes open and no-one could blame them for that. This part is where Moses was supposed to have crossed the Red Sea in the Exodus.
Needless to say the anchor did not pull up any Pharoahs chariot wheels, when we set sail about 10 A,M, and now at 5 oclock the mountains of Sinai, "Where Moses who was C,C, of the Israelites, gave them the good oil, about the future stunts, and their present behaviour in the land of sin", are just visible in the distance on the east. Yes; he was no mug, this same old Moses. He had no maps, so he climbed Sinai to get the lay of the land, and when he saw how populous the country was, he laid down laws that would make them increase rapidly, and kept them there 40 years, getting stronger, and practiseing for "Der Tag" when they fell on the the Cananites, and wiped them out.
It has a parallel in our own day, only Fritz wasn't successful the Israelites were. Success in war covers a multitude of sins. Occasionally one catches a glance of part of the coastline in the distance, or a few barren islands. On the 10th we passed some islands off the Eritrea coast known as the Heenish islands I think, they appear to be of volcanic origin, and to have had little rain on them, since they were first formed, as they look quite fresh and new. Their