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beer hall was located. Here they served stout, a pastry of their own brand, and a watery solu- tion called orange squeeze. This was a rather popular place for us, for we were not yet used to the salt water in Aden. The water for Aden comes from the hills outside the city and is collected by aquaducts and a reservoir that is said to have been built by the Queen of Sheba. One experience can typify our whole liberty in Aden. Mel Hill ordered a milk shake, steak and eggs. He got his milk shake with goat ' s milk, his steak was goat meat and the eggs were from a Guinea hen. Liberty ended the second night with a chaos of taxi drivers and boatmen shouting after our men that they had not paid for their rides. After a day at sea underway from Bahrein, we arrived in the city of Aden at the foot of the Red Sea. We pulled into our anchorage after exchanging a few suspicious glances with a Russian ship nearby. As in all the foreign ports we entered, the bum boats were alongside several minutes after we anchored, this time with brightly - colored rugs festooning their bows and draping grace- fully off their sterns into the water. These bum boats were a regular floating small stores, with everything from native knives to Colgate ' s tooth paste. Once ashore, you could see the typical Ara- bian town on the hillside, stone houses and a conglomeration of goats, camels, and children, each with its own particular noise and smell. The lower section of the city was predomin- antly British in its influence. Farther to the west was the military establishment, where the The transiting of the Suez Canal took us from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through Egypt. The journey lasted about eight hours. The canal is quite narrow, allowing only one ship to pass in one direction. As a convoy, our two divisions were given priority passage. Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez contains no locks, so we did not have to wait to be raised and lowered. The desert stretches away to the horizon on either side — broken occasionally by an isolated cluster of palm trees. Herds of camels could be seen being driven across the desert wastes. We saw British Tommies stationed along the canal protecting Great Britain ' s interest in the Suez area. Britain ' s long mandate on the Suez Canal was evident in the huge monument — a towering split shaft on the west bank — erected in memory of the men who died defending the canal during World War I. At approximately 2100 that night, we steamed past Port Said into the Mediterranean.
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i a ' 7) W : We sailed into the Persian Gulf to the port of Bahrein, one of the richest oil-producing areas of the world. The city remains much as it has for centuries. The low, whitewashed stucco buildings; men in flowing robes, heavily veiled women, herds of camels being driven across the desert reminded us of scenes from the Arabian Nights. The few foreign automobiles seemed an anachronism among the men astride donkeys. The Royal Navy invited us to use the recrea- tional facilities of the Naval Base located on an oasis near Bahrein. It afforded a pleasant aft- ernoon of baseball and swimming. 9 HIMBHH
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