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Turks, Arabs, and goats, gave off a stench that soon benunnbed the nos- trils. It was necessary to barter for purchases here. If the dealer asked $300.00, one offered $3.00, and eventually the two agreed on a price of about $30.00. Still, the winner of the deal was always the shopkeeper. The crew soon voted Aden the training ground for all Pawnbrokers. Com- mander Darden, Lt. Cdr. Esling, Norman Wachel, Herb Lundmark, and A. C. Woodward escorted the butcher, Joe Karem as interpreter, to purchase native rugs from Crater City. He spoke Arabic, and proved
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Invaluable to the purchasers. It was possible, after the usual haggling with the drivers, to make a tour out past the nriodern Allied airfield into Arab City, a town centuries old, where the Camel was the motive power for running the machinery that pumped water, ground meal, and turned windlasses. One of the men met a British Flyer, and had an air view of the area. He came down shaking at the knees, having had a few pot shots come his way while over Vichy French territory. The last night in port Aden an incredibly large moon slipped up over the horizon. A ship was in the process of coaling. Natives carrying baskets of coal on their heads chanted as they worked. Softly their voices floated over the water. Through the Red Sea there was only one subject for scuttlebutt: Through the Suez Canal, and back home? Mail had not been received for two months, and news from the States was scarce. Didn ' t the British show surprise when they saw the Mount Vernon in Aden? Hadn ' t re- por ts been broadcast the Japs had sunk the Mighty Mount? But the ship stopped just at the south tip of the Canal and embarked troops. There was no chance to get ashore, but the shore came to the ship. Native vendors came with cheap trinkets, mostly leather goods to
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